Michael Edward Dorsey v. Al C. Parke, Warden, Northpoint Training Center

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he Sixth Amendment has not been construed to give criminal defendants absolute control over cross-examination.”
• “Where the trial court has curtailed a defendant’s cross-examination of a ‘star’ government witness . . . its ruling must be more carefully scrutinized.”
• \Where the trial court has curtailed a defendant's cross-examination of a `star' government witness--as it has done in this case--its ruling must be more carefully scrutinized.\
• “[E]ven when the core values of the Sixth Amendment are invaded by a denial of cross-examination . . . the standard of review is abuse of discretion, abuse being found where the trial court has interfered with the defendant’s constitutional right.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).