California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Sloan, A146660 (Cal. App. 2018):
attacked by any party, including the party that called the witness. (Evid. Code, 785.) And although Evidence Code section 352 empowers courts to limit impeachment to prevent mini-trials on collateral issues (People v. Wheeler, supra, 4 Cal.4th at p. 296), the prosecutor's questioning about prostitution consisted of just a few questions, amounting to less than a page of the reporter's transcript of the trial. The court did not abuse its discretion in allowing this limited questioning.
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