People v. Racheli

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• courts may admit “evidence of a plea agreement even if such agreement requires the witness to testify truthfully as a condition thereof”
• by admitting a plea agreement requiring truthful testimony, the jury can fully consider the possible conflicting motives underlying the witness's testimony and more accurately assess the witness's credibility
• Evidence of a plea agreement is admissible to allow “the finder of fact to consider all the pertinent factors surrounding such agreement in making its assessment of the witness’ credibility.”
• no error to allow prosecutor to ask informant if he is telling the truth, if he is lying, and if he knows that the plea agreement requires him to \continue to give truthful testimony or the deal is off\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).