United States v. Dennis Leon Barron

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• noting possible constitutional infirmity of excluding testimony of defendant's witnesses pursuant to terms of Fed.R.Crim.P. 12.1(d)
• noting possible constitutional infirmity of excluding testimony of defendant’s witnesses pursuant to terms of Fed.R.Crim.P. 12.-1(d)
• on notice before trial that alibi witnesses might be barred for defendant’s failure to respond to government request for notice of alibi witnesses
• two months does not defeat reliability where witness has never selected any other suspect
• defendant’s lack' of cooperation in his own defense and the strength of the government’s case justified the trial court’s exclusion of the alibi witnesses
• “[E]ven when the government knows the identity of defense witnesses, the government may still be surprised to learn that they intend to testify about an alibi.”

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