Rebuttal Witness • Jury Instructions • Scope of Cross-Examination of Defense Witness • Qualification of Expert Witness

Commonwealth v. Yale, PICS Case No. 16-1386 (Pa. Super. Nov. 10, 2016) Ott, J. (16 pages).

The trial court improperly permitted rebuttal expert testimony to offer opinion on causation of the victim’s death, even though such testimony could have been given in the commonwealth’s case-in-chief. Judgment of sentence affirmed.