Grant v. Washington

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[a trial] court must explore the possibility of conflict . . . when it knows or reasonably should know of a conflict[emphasis in original; internal quotation marks omitted]
• ‘‘[w]here, as here, the trial court is properly called upon to exercise its discretion, its failure to do so is error’’
• record reflects that trial court’s evidentiary ruling was result of expressed belief that it lacked discretion to preclude evidence
• ‘‘[w]here . . . the trial court is properly called upon to exercise its discretion, its fail- ure to do so is error’’
• trial court has discretionary authority to disallow cross-exam- ination on specific acts of misconduct if it determines that prejudicial effect of evidence outweighs its proba- tive value
• ‘‘the trial court must be able, and be freely permitted, to rely [on] [defense] counsel’s representation that the possibility of . . . a conflict does or does not exist’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).