· 10/2/1990
United States v. Emilano Gomez-Gallardo
Citations
- 915 F.2d 553
- 31 Fed. R. Serv. 475
- 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 17266
- 1990 WL 141001
How courts have described this case
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- \[T]he government must not knowingly elicit testimony from a witness in order to 21 impeach him with otherwise inadmissible evidence.\
- “The adversarial system breaks down when the defendant is prevented from defining and presenting his own case and the prosecution proves guilt by creating and then destroying its own creation.”
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Judges: Tang, Nelson, Canby
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