The late briefing of defence counsel does not excuse a failure to discover evidence with reasonable diligence where the evidence could have been identified by the appellant's legal representatives at an earlier stage of preparation. An expert in scientific and forensic photography may give admissible opinion evidence on whether a digital image was correctly exposed and whether it depicts one substance overlaying another, but such evidence must be obtained in time for trial.
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