United States v. William Harris

How courts have described this case

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• stating that such questions “force a witness to testify as to something he cannot know, ie., whether another is intentionally seeking to mislead the tribunal”
• stating that such questions unfairly “force defendants into choosing to either undermine their own testimony or essentially accuse another witness of being a liar”
• stating that such questions unfairly \force defendants into choosing to either undermine their own testimony or essentially accuse another witness of being a liar\
• stating that prosecutor’s remark that police witnesses would not jeopardize their careers by lying in court, to the extent it invoked information not in the record, was improper
• declining to find an error “plain” because the Supreme Court had not previously ruled on the issue nor “had this Court in a precedential opinion”
• “[S]uch questions force defendants to assess the credibility of others who have testified at trial—a function exclusively reserved to the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).