Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Germain v. United States

434 U.S. 965

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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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.