United States v. Reginald Miles

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the Court has the discretion to bar a defendant from introducing documents that “would have served no purpose other than to repeat the testimony given by [the witness]”
• conduct related to fraud, deceit, or dishonesty “plainly relate[s] to a witness’s truthfulness or untruthfulness”
• affirm- ing court’s refusal to allow attorney to cross-examine govern- ment witness about failure to register firearm; conduct violated local ordinance but was irrelevant to truthfulness
• “facts strongly indicate that Contant’s failure to register his gun with the City was an oversight rather than a deceitful act which would bear on his truthfulness”
• “facts strongly indicate that Contant’s failure to register his gun with the City was an oversight rather than a deceitful act which would bear on his truthfulness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).