United States v. Jack Randall MacCloskey

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• reversing conviction where court excluded testimony vital to defense and fitting within hearsay exception
• finding a violation when the prosecutor called the witness’s attorney the day before the witness was to testify to “remind” him that the witness could be re-indicted on related charges
• U.S. Attorney’s suggestion that witness would be well-advised to remember the Fifth Amendment violated defendant’s right to present defense witness freely
• U.S. Attorney telephoned defendant’s girlfriend’s attorney to advise him to remind his client that if she testified at trial she could be reindicted on dropped charges
• U.S. Attorney telephoned defendant’s girlfriend's attorney to advise him to remind his client that if she testified at trial she could be reindicted on dropped charges
• United States Attorney’s statement to a prospective witness’s attorney that the witness would be “well advised to remember the Fifth Amendment” destroyed her choice to testify freely

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