Jenkins v. Anderson, No. 78-6809 (U.S. Supreme Court) (447 U.S. 231; 100 S.Ct. 2124) (June 10, 1980) (Justice Powell)
In this case, the prosecutor in a first-degree murder trial, during cross-examination and again in closing argument, attempted to impeach the defendant’s claim of self-defense by suggesting that he would not have waited two weeks to report the killing if that was what had occurred. The defendant claimed that commenting …
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