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U.S. v. Cruz-Garcia, No. 02-10275 (9th Cir.) (344 F.3d 951) (September 17, 2003) (Judge Alex Kozinski)

Loaded on Sept. 1, 2003 published in Punch and Jurists September 01, 2003
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Informants and Paid Witnesses.

In this case, the Ninth Circuit sharply criticized both the district court and the prosecutor for their roles in preventing the defense from presenting rebuttal evidence about the prosecution’s star witness’s prior crimes. The Court held that the excluded evidence was “highly probative”; it could “well have cast reasonable doubt” ...

 

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