Whittaker v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \it [is] incumbent upon the defendant to make the record show the expected answer [to a question]\
• holding that the trial court erred in prohibiting a defendant from asking any questions regarding alleged leniency in sentencing that may have motivated a witness to testify against the defendant
• holding that the trial court erred in prohibiting a defendant from asking any questions regarding alleged leniency in sentencing that may have motivated a witness to testify against the defendant
• holding that the trial court erred in prohibiting a defendant from asking any questions regarding alleged leniency in sentencing that may have motivated a witness to testify against the defendant
• noting that “a unilateral avowal of counsel, if unchallenged,” may “constitute[] a proper proffer”
• allowing testimony to be proffered by “giv[ing it] in the absence of the jury and ma[king it] a part of the record”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).