Hood Canal Coalition v. Jefferson County

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• noting that “even if the court has permitted some cross-examination relevant to bias, we will evaluate the error under the harmless constitutional error test of Chapman ”
• noting that corruption evidence is a subset of bias evidence whose “essential discrediting element is a willingness to obstruct the discovery of the truth by manufacturing or suppressing testimony”
• willingness to testify falsely goes to the core of the witness’ credibility, regardless of his personal or pecuniary relationship with the defendant
• “willingness to lie upon the stand”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).