Carl Pettijohn v. Frank Hall

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reasoning that if evidence “is sufficiently reliable for prosecutorial use, the state cannot claim that it is too unreliable when offered by the defendant”
• noting that state court’s relevancy ruling improperly “focused on impeachment, not upon the use of the evidence to present a direct defense upon one’s behalf’
• reasoning that if evidence “is sufficiently reliable for prosecutorial use, the state cannot claim that it is too unreliable when offered by the defendant”
• in habeas case, applying harmless error standard to state court’s erroneous exclusion of defendant’s evidence
• exclusion of key identification testimony was necessarily harmful error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).