The undercover police officer's buy report was properly admitted into evidence under the past recollection recorded exception to the hearsay rule. That doctrine did not require that the officer have no recollection of the facts surrounding defendant's arrest, but only that he lacked "sufficient present recollection" of relevant recorded information (People v Taylor,
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