DAVID R. CARRUTHERS and JEAN E. CARRUTHERS v. TOWER HILL PRIME INSURANCE COMPANY

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• concluding that failure to interrupt trial judge in middle of his remarks warning defense witness of potential perjury charges is not basis for waiver
• holding that a trial judge's badgering of sole defense witness which included threatening him with prosecution for perjury causing him not to testify constituted reversible error
• holding that the unnecessarily strong terms used by the trial judge could have exerted such coercion preventing the witness from making a free and voluntary choice whether or not to testify
• finding that the judge’s threatening remarks to the sole defense witness drove him off the stand
• finding that the defendant’s right to due process was violated when “the judge’s threatening remarks, directed only at the single witness for the defense, effectively drove that witness off the stand.”
• holding trial judge = s remarks may violate the fundamental right to present a defense by intimidating a defense witness into not testifying

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