City of Nebraska v. Northcutt

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• finding that the “ ‘extent of cross-examination with respect to an appropriate subject of inquiry is within the sound discretion of the trial court’ ” and that “the right of cross-examination includes the right to impeach a witness’s credibility”
• defendant’s lack of intelligence, alcohol and drug addiction, and family upbringing, which included frequent physical abuse by an alcoholic father, collectively “entitled to modest weight”
• defendant’s lack of intelligence, alcohol and drug addiction, and family upbringing, which included frequent physical abuse by an alcoholic father, collectively “entitled to modest weight”
• trial court has broad discretion to avoid unduly harassing questioning
• age of 24 was entitled to “slight weight”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).