Section 772 Of Article 2. Examination Of Witnesses From California Evidence Code >> Division 6. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 2.
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. (a) The examination of a witness shall proceed in the
following phases: direct examination, cross-examination, redirect
examination, recross-examination, and continuing thereafter by
redirect and recross-examination.
(b) Unless for good cause the court otherwise directs, each phase
of the examination of a witness must be concluded before the
succeeding phase begins.
(c) Subject to subdivision (d), a party may, in the discretion of
the court, interrupt his cross-examination, redirect examination, or
recross-examination of a witness, in order to examine the witness
upon a matter not within the scope of a previous examination of the
witness.
(d) If the witness is the defendant in a criminal action, the
witness may not, without his consent, be examined under direct
examination by another party.