Watts v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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

• finding actual prejudice when defense was prevented from cross- examining “victim and sole eyewitness . . . [who] provided the only direct evidence linking [defendant] to her injuries” about her “potential ulterior motives”
• “[W]e look through state-court summary denials to the last reasoned state-court opinion on the claim at issue.” (emphasis added)
• “As a general matter, a witness may not be contradicted by extrinsic evidence on a collateral matter.”
• “The whole point of the effective, permissible cross-examination protected by the Confrontation Clause is to diminish the witness’ credibility with the jury and thereby render a conviction less likely.”
• “The whole point of the effective, permissible cross-examination protected by the Confrontation Clause is to diminish the witness’ credibility with the jury and thereby render a conviction less likely.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).