SCHWARTZ, ALAN R., Associate Judge.
On this appeal from a conviction for second degree murder, we reverse for a new trial because of the trial court's erroneous exclusion of proferred testimony that the only identifiable fingerprints on a vodka bottle found on a couch near the victim's body were those of an unidentified third person and had been made neither by the decedent nor the defendant. The evidence was plainly admissible in support of the defense that the crime...
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