United States v. Miguel Candelaria-Gonzalez and Manuel Ledesma-Ruiz

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• concluding that the government had improperly asked character witnesses if the defendant’s reputation would be affected if he were convicted of the charged crimes
• holding that the witness’s answers to the prosecutor’s questions about the defendant’s character on cross-examination “sought speculative responses resting upon an assumption of guilt,” and that such error under the circumstances “required reversal”
• prosecutor’s questions to impeach character witness improperly raised inculpatory testimony by a drug enforcement agent to the status of accepted fact
• prosecutor's questions to impeach character witness improperly raised inculpatory testimony by a drug enforcement agent to the status of accepted fact
• “Government counsel asked if Ledesma’s reputation would be affected if he were convicted of the alleged crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).