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· 6/28/1978

United States v. Angel Rios Ruiz, A/K/A Junior Rios

Citations

  • 579 F.2d 670
  • 48 A.L.R. Fed. 911
  • 1978 U.S. App. LEXIS 10457

How courts have described this case

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  • policemen may be interrogated about their disciplinary record in order to show possible bias
  • “The ‘bias’ exception to the strictures of Federal Rules of Evidence 608(b) and 609(a) has been generally recognized.”
  • admission of evidence regarding suspensions of police witnesses for unrelated cases of excessive force upheld where the witnesses testified that the defendant's fellow police officers had not used excessive force

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Judges: Coffin, Campbell, Bownes

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