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The court may permit the defendant or his attorney and the prosecuting attorney to examine the prospective jurors to select a fair and impartial jury or may itself conduct the examination. In the latter event the court shall permit the defendant or his attorney and the prosecuting attorney to supplement the examination by such further inquiry as it deems proper or shall itself submit to the prospective jurors such additional questions by the parties or their attorneys as it deems proper. NOTE: Section 85.20 is substantively the same as former Rule 24(a). See also Fed. R. Crim. P. 24(a). Compare Cal. Pen. Code § 1078. See generally 8 Moore, Federal Practice &24.03(1974); B. Witkin, California Criminal Procedure Trial §§ 406, 408- 415(1963, Supp. 1973).