United States v. Frederick Leon Dotson

How courts have described this case

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• excluding government agents’ Fed. R. Evid. 608 opinions as to defendant’s character for untruthfulness where only basis for opinions was their criminal investigation of defendant
• reversing conviction and noting that“[t]he record should reflect some indication that the court did not merely let down the bars to the expression of any opinions the prosecutor’s witnesses wanted to voice”
• character evidence as to truthfulness inadmissible if only basis for opinions of government agents was their involvement in criminal investigation of defendants
• a six-year relationship between an agent and witness in the context of an investigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).