United States v. Cudlitz

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a district judge “enjoys wide latitude in deciding whether a good faith basis exists”
• noting distinction between providing such instructions contemporaneously as opposed to after the fact
• “we are instructed to ask whether it is ‘highly probable’ that the error did not ‘contribute to the verdict’ ”
• \we are instructed to ask whether it is `highly probable' that the error did not `contribute to the verdict'\
• “[T]he sting [of objectionable questions] survives such instructions, which is why lawyers ask impeaching questions that they know will produce denials.”
• specific instances of conduct “may, ... in the discretion of the court, if probative of truthfulness or untruthfulness, be inquired into on cross-examination of the witness .. ,”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).