Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Germain v. United States
54 L. Ed. 2d 450
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1977-11-28
- Topic
- general
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
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.