United States v. Charles Thorn

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• holding that district court’s refusal to allow cross-examination of government witness’s state law indictment did not violate Sixth Amendment because (1
• under general mandate of Rule 403, \district judge should exclude evidence if its prejudicial effect outweighs its probative value\
• proper to limit cross-examination when there was no showing federal prosecutors could influence an unrelated state prosecution of a witness
• proper to limit cross-examination when there was no showing federal prosecutors could influence an unrelated state prosecution of a witness
• \An exception to the prohibition against the use of extrinsic evidence to attack the credibility of a witness exists in cases in which the evidence tends to show bias or motive for the witness to testify untruthfully.\

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