What is the test for excluding third party culpability evidence in a criminal case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Stewart, A136221 (Cal. App. 2013):
commit the offense. (Id. at p. 38.) (See Holmes v. South Carolina (2006) 547 U.S. 319, 327 [noting "widely accepted" rule that third party culpability evidence that does not sufficiently connect the third party to the crime may be excluded].)
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