United States v. Leonard Sasson

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• stating that a core goal of cross examination is to expose bias
• stating that it is rational to penalize a defendant for the combined weight of a drug’s active ingredient and the carrier medium because the carrier facilitates distri-button and sale of the narcotics
• explaining that the Confrontation Clause “guarantees only an opportunity for a thorough and effective cross-examination, ‘not cross- examination that is effective in whatever way, and to what- ever extent, the defense might wish’”
• explaining that the Confrontation Clause “guarantees only an opportunity for a thorough and effective cross-examination, ‘not cross- examination that is effective in whatever way, and to what- ever extent, the defense might wish’”
• stating that a core goal of cross examina- tion is to expose bias
• requiring advance notice and an explanation for an upward departure from five years supervised release to ten years supervised release

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).