United States v. Ralph Borello

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• before impeachment, witness may testify only about those portions of agreement that indicate witness’s “motive for cooperating with the Government,” not about those portions that bolster witness’s credibility
• “For us to disapprove of the present procedure permitting the bolstering of the witness’s testimony and then to declare it harmless error would make our remarks in the previous cases purely ‘ceremonial.’ The error cannot be deemed harmless.“

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