Meyer Biller v. Raymond Lopes, Commissioner of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• stating that where, unlike here, a pretrial ruling “depends on legal and not factual considerations, the requirement that the defendant actually testify at trial to preserve the admissibility issue for appeal might not necessarily be appropriate”
• use of an improperly obtained conviction to prevent a defendant from taking the stand in his own defense is not subject to harmless error analysis
• “the constitutional violation in admitting compelled [or coerced] testimony for impeachment purposes is a matter of law, not an issue resting on factual consideration”
• a habeas corpus petitioner was permitted to raise a claim that the denial of a motion in limine unfairly kept him from testifying, when the motion was based on the unconstitutionality of a prior conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).