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Cal. Penal Code § 1180
Current through 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12)
Part of Chapter 6: New Trials, California Penal Code.
Full text of Cal. Penal Code § 1180
Statutory text current through the 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of California.
The granting of a new trial places the parties in the same position as if no trial had been had. All the testimony must be produced anew, and the former verdict or finding cannot be used or referred to, either in evidence or in argument, or be pleaded in bar of any conviction which might have been had under the accusatory pleading.
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