Velasquez v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• precluding evidence of the witness’s mental condition three years after the offense where there was no evidence that the condition persisted at the time of the trial
• sidestepping the scope of Battle analysis because the error, if any, 37 was harmless
• no Brady violation when “the government tried, without success, to find” records that were requested
• witness’ mental condition three years after crime not relevant to her perception of events at the time of the assault
• “[E]vidence of a witness’ mental illness may be relevant to both competency and credibility.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).