Tiamo Leroy Blackcloud v. State of Iowa

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• holding that due process guarantees a criminal defendant the right to present the testimony of defense witnesses
• holding that a state statute that prohibited the defendant from calling a witness who had been charged and previously convicted of committing the same murder is unconstitutional
• holding that a state statute that prohibited the defendant from calling a witness who had been charged and previously convicted of committing the same murder is unconstitutional
• holding that the Sixth Amendment right to present one’s own witnesses as part of one’s defense is a “fundamental element of due process”
• holding that the federal compulsory process clause is incorporated in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
• concluding that old common-law rule, which forbade criminal defendants from testifying due to their personal interest in trial's outcome, is irrational under our constitutional scheme

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