United States v. Betty Frankenthal

How courts have described this case

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• witness’ interest in the litigation establishes a more direct, motivation to testify falsely than does a possible friendship bias
• “[T]he possibility that prestige, dignity, and authority may have somehow been imparted to the prosecution’s case by the judge’s appearance on its behalf cannot lightly be dismissed.”
• “[T]he possibility that prestige, dignity, and authority may have somehow been imparted to the prose- cution’s case by the judge’s appearance on its behalf cannot lightly be dismissed.”
• compulsion of judge’s testimony “create[s] sensitive problems requiring delicate attention”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).