Where a witness's prior representations to police are expressed in first-person narrative and the witness had opportunity to perceive the asserted facts, the representations may qualify as first-hand hearsay under s 62(2) of the Evidence Act 2008 (Vic) even where the witness claims at trial to have no memory due to drug intoxication and suggests the information may have come from others, provided there is no positive evidence that the information was in fact derived from another source.
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