Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Germain v. United States
Germain v. United States, 434 U.S. 965 (1977)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1977-11-28
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- allowing conclusory cross-examination of expert character witness, but, in dictum,- disapproving similar questioning of a non-expert character witness
- “the facts alleged in support of a motion for a new trial were within the defendant’s knowledge at the time of trial” and thus not newly discovered
- in dictum disapproving such questioning of non-expert witnesses
Citator
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- 76 opinions
C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.