United States v. Gary Williams

How courts have described this case

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• examining whether a four-year delay between occurrence of the crime and the subsequent indictment violated the Fifth Amendment
• death of witness insufficient where defendant failed to provide evidence linking witness to defendant’s version of the facts and court only had peripheral facts it gleaned
• death of defense witness did not cause “actual and substantial” prejudice to defense
• “We hold that permitting this line of cross- examination [guilt-assuming hypotheticals] over objection -17- was error, and we see no reason to treat reputation and opinion witnesses differently in this regard.”
• in fraud case, holding it was error for Government to ask character witnesses on cross-examination if their opinions would change if they knew that the defendant had committed the charged fraud
• no prejudice despite death of defense witness

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