California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. O'Malley, 199 Cal.Rptr.3d 1, 365 P.3d 790, 62 Cal.4th 944 (Cal. 2016):
Rebuttal evidence is " ' "evidence made necessary by the defendant's case in the sense that he has introduced new evidence or made assertions that were not implicit in his denial of guilt." ' " (People v. Harris (2005) 37 Cal.4th 310, 336, 33 Cal.Rptr.3d 509, 118 P.3d 545.) "The scope of rebuttal evidence is within the
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