Stanley v. Maryland

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, after considering relevance, “(t]he better approach 1s to limit discovery for purposes of impeachment in the same way that other discovery is constrained: by determining whether it is reasonably likely to lead to admissible evidence”
• “To justify an inquiry into facts relevant solely to credibility, the party seeking discovery must therefore have a factual basis for believing that prior acts of deception will be revealed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).