· 12/6/1976
Timmons v. Lawton
Citations
- 429 U.S. 1000
- 97 S. Ct. 529
How courts have described this case
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- no denial of effective cross-examination for impeachment where the jury has sufficient information to appraise the bias and motives of the witness
- no denial of effective cross-examination for impeachment where the jury has sufficient information to appraise the bias and motives of the witness
- where defense knew of basic content of plea agreement with prosecution’s star witness before trial, “[k]nowledge of the precise details of the agreement was unlikely to add significantly to its impeachment potential”
- no unrestricted right to present evidence to identify another as the culprit
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