State of Iowa v. Juan Jose Contreras-Mendoza

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• stating that because a witness’s motivation to lie may be explored on cross-examination, it may also be discussed during direct examination
• “given the considerable leeway allowed to counsel on cross-examination to delve into subjects that have been even tangentially broached or their consequent inferences, the prosecutor’s line of questioning . . . was not improper”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).