Apart from a party's right to impeach a witness, the permissible scope of a party's cross-examination of a witness following the testimony of the witness on direct examination for an opposing party is limited to the subject matter of the testimony of the witness on direct examination.

Contributed in 2009 by Peter Tillers
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