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State v. Burris

Citations

  • 643 P.2d 8
  • 131 Ariz. 563
  • 1982 Ariz. App. LEXIS 389

How courts have described this case

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  • finding no reversible error in the court’s decision to preclude impeachment of a witness with a civil lawsuit where “[t]he motive and interest of [the witness] in the criminal prosecution [was] quite clear without the rejected testimony”
  • “the accuracy of the sworn interpreter’s interpretation may be impeached and is ultimately to be determined by the jury.”
  • no reversible error where witness’s motive and interest “quite clear” in record, notwithstanding rejected testimony of civil lawsuit
  • \the motive and interest of [the victim] in the criminal prosecution is quite clear without the rejected testimony. He was chained up and shot at by appellant\
  • \the accuracy of the sworn interpreter's interpretation may be impeached and is ultimately to be determined by the jury.\
  • The accuracy of the sworn interpreter’s interpretation may be impeached and is ultimately to be determined by the jury

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Judges: Birdsall, Hathaway, Howard

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