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Sec. 13. Party may not impeach his or her own witness. — Except with respect to witnesses referred to in paragraphs (d) and (e) of Section 10 of this Rule, the party presenting the witness is not allowed to impeach his or her credibility. A witness may be considered as unwilling or hostile only if so declared by the court upon adequate showing of his or her adverse interest, unjustified reluctance to testify, or his or her having misled the party into calling him or her to the witness stand. The unwilling or hostile witness so declared, or the witness who is an adverse party, may be impeached by the party presenting him or her in all respects as if he or she had been called by the adverse party, except by evidence of his or her bad character. He or she may also be impeached and cross-examined by the adverse party, but such cross-examination must only be on the subject matter of his or her examination-in-chief.
2019 Revised Rules on Evidence (A.M. No. 19-08-15-SC), Rule 132, Section 13. Reproduced verbatim and verified against the Supreme Court's official published text and the ChanRobles rendering.
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This is Section 13 of Rule 132 (Presentation Of Evidence) of the 2019 Revised Rules on Evidence, the rules promulgated by the Supreme Court in A.M. No. 19-08-15-SC and in force since May 1, 2020. The text above is reproduced verbatim from the current rules.
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- Section 12 — Impeachment by evidence of conviction of crime.
- Section 14 — How witness impeached by evidence of inconsistent statements.
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