· 7/15/1878
Clendenning v. Crawford & McLaughlin
Citations
- 7 Neb. 474
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- holding that Crim.R. 16 “does not grant discretion to a party to ignore a request of an opposing party until a court orders compliance”
- holding that Crim.R. 16 “does not grant discretion to a party to ignore a request of an opposing party until a court orders compliance”
- observing that the effect of the sanction of excluding Papadelis’s defense witnesses was to deny Papadelis the right to present a defense
- reasoning that exclusion of testimony is a permissible sanction in a criminal case provided the exclusion does not act to completely deny the defendant his constitutional right to present a defense
- “ ‘The overall purpose [of criminal discovery rules] is to produce a fair trial’ ”
- \[t]he purpose of discovery rules is to prevent surprise and the secreting of evidence favorable to one party\
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