What is the test for reopening a criminal matter for the admission of additional evidence?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Baltazar, F062476 (Cal. App. 2012):
The decision whether to reopen a criminal matter for the admission of additional evidence is within the broad discretion of the court. (People v. Jones (2012) 54 Cal.4th 1, 66.) The Penal Code codifies not only the order of proceedings in a criminal trial "unless otherwise directed by the court" ( 1093) but also the exception that, "for good reasons, and in the sound discretion of the court, the order prescribed in Section 1093 may be departed from" ( 1094).
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