United States v. Sol Mayer

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• holding that the district court violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment rights when it did not allow sufficient inquiry into the motivations of the government’s chief witness in testifying
• The trial court’s “discretionary authority to limit cross-examination comes into play only after there has been permitted as a matter of right sufficient cross-examination to satisfy the Sixth Amendment”
• defendant should be afforded wide latitude in cross-examining accomplice about the disposition of counts against the accomplice

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