CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Court Control of Proceedings
......Order of Proof
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Although known crucial witnesses should be called in case-in-chief, circumstances may make impossible; order of proof is within trial court's discretion.

Order of proof in trial is within sound discretion of trial court.

Expert testimony re V's mental retardation, in advance of D's attacking V's credibility, proper.

Trial court's authority to regulate order of proof includes power to bifurcate key issues on own motion and try them first.