State v. Eye

How courts have described this case

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

• finding prohibition of defendant’s cross-examination of State witness about dismissed charges in exchange for interview about subject crime violated defendant’s right of confrontation
• trial court has discretion to join indictments based on “a common scheme or plan”
• “The confrontation clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, coupled with the Fourteenth Amendment, guarantees the right of an accused in a criminal prosecution to confront the witnesses against him.”
• court refused to allow defendant to cross-examine a witness regarding bias

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Osakalumi
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-07-19· cited 75×
• State v. James Edward S.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-12-12· cited 61×
• State v. Middleton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2007-01-08· cited 31×
• State v. Hatfield
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-06-29· cited 28×
• State v. Hanson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-06-16· cited 23×
• State v. Hottle
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-07-17· cited 8×
• State v. Hoard
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-11-21· cited 8×
• State v. Gibson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-12-17· cited 7×
• William J. Harrison v. David Ballard, Warden
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-11-17
• State of West Virginia v. Darius Jamal Porter
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2023-10-18
• State of West Virginia v. Chad M. Eldredge
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2025-05-22

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• State Ex Rel. Hawks v. Lazaro
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1974-01-15· cited 75×
• State v. Mitter
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-12-15· cited 41×