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Carpenter v. State

Citations

  • 979 S.W.2d 633
  • 1998 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 124
  • 1998 WL 670409

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  • concluding that appellant did not provide any indication that pending federal charges were relevant to potential bias
  • concluding that appellant did not provide any indication that pending federal charges were relevant to potential bias
  • noting that parties have “great latitude” under the rules to cross-examine witnesses on facts tending to “establish ill feeling, bias, motive and animus”
  • “Exposing a witness’ motivation to testify for or against the accused or the State is a proper and important purpose of cross-examination.”
  • \Exposing a witness' motivation to testify for or against the accused or the State is a proper and important purpose of cross-examination.\
  • “Exposing a witness’ motivation to testify for or against the accused or the State is a proper and important purpose of cross-examination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Meyers, McCormick, Keller, Holland, Womack, Mansfield, Price, Baird, Overstreet

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