Hill v. New Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• payment of witness fees does not prove bias or motive to misrepresent because both government and defense witnesses receive standard mileage and witness fees
• “When the defense offers this evidence, it may deny confrontation rights to exclude it.”
• exclusion of evidence of motive to lie is constitutional error
• exclusion of evidence of motive to lie is constitutional error
• discussing appellate review standard of abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).