United States v. Juan Baptista-Rodriguez, Ramon Calvo, and Julio R. Diaz

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• noting that district courts “retain wide latitude to impose reasonable limits on cross-examination” based on a variety of concerns including “confusion of the issues”
• stating that the district court did not abuse its discretion by permitting the Government to clarify on redirect examination an area of testimony that the defendant had raised on cross-examination
• “The main and essential purpose of confrontation is to secure for the [defendant] the opportunity of cross-examination.”
• the defendant challenging the sufficiency of his conviction was present at two “key meetings” involving the conspiracy
• declining to decide whether the “sham prosecution” exception exists
• declining to decide whether the “sham prosecution” exception exists

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).