Clayborne v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the standard for bias cross-examination is \a good faith basis\ 3 and that the requirement is \flexible as well as lenient\
• reversal is not required if “we can say with the requisite ‘fair assurance’ that [the appellant] was not substantially prejudiced by the trial court’s [error]-”
• “[Pjrobative evidence of bias, like probative evidence generally, should not be excluded because of ‘crabbed notions of relevance or excessive mistrust of juries.’ ”
• alternatively describing the requirement for a good faith basis as \a reasonable factual foundation\ and \at least a well-reasoned suspicion\
• “[A] party’s effort to demonstrate bias may properly solicit over a wide range any information of potential value to the trier of fact in the assessment of credibility.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The examiner must have a reasonable factual foundation, such as the credible report of another witness or one‟s client, or at least a „well-reasoned suspicion‟ that the circumstances indicating bias might be true.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).