California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Brown, B270677 (Cal. App. 2017):
Defendant also cites Rock v. Arkansas (1987) 483 U.S. 44 to support the contention that "[a]rbitrary and unreasonable limitations or restrictions on a defendant's testimony [violate] the right to testify." The issue in Rock was "whether a criminal defendant's right to testify may be restricted by a state rule that excludes her posthypnosis testimony." (Id. at p. 53.) That issue was not present here, and defendant does not demonstrate how his testimony was restricted.
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