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Washington v. Texas, 388 U.S. 14 (1967), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided that the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution (guaranteeing the right of a criminal defendant to force the attendance of witnesses for their side) is applicable in state courts as well as federal courts. [1]
Fighting against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's effort to halt a series of court-ordered depositions, former agency employees turned whistleblowers are again arguing to the Supreme Court of ...
Jul. 14—The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution in order to resolve an appeal by inmate Ramiro Gonzales that claimed inaccurate testimony could have influenced his ...
If the court does so, the lawyer may thereafter ask witness leading questions during direct examination. The techniques of direct examination are taught in courses on trial advocacy. [1] Each direct examination is integrated with the overall case strategy through either a theme and theory or, with more advanced strategies, a line of effort. [2]
Texas allows testimony from the first person the victim reported the crime to, and the outcry witness must be over the age of 18. [ 3 ] California has more general hearsay exceptions, including PC 273(d), which specifically address child abuse, along with a long list of items, such as confessions, mental health, and deathbed statements.
(The Center Square) – The state of Texas has two more wins in court, in a sweeping small business federal regulatory action that a federal judge ruled is unconstitutional and a federal agency ...
This also includes a witness's grand jury testimony, if the witness testified at trial. [2] After the government's witness testifies, the court must, upon motion of the defendant, order the government to produce any statement of the witness in the government's possession relating to the subject matter as to which the witness testified.
To better understand why a case that had seemingly strong evidence ended with such an attractive deal for the teen’s killers, Tribune reporters obtained thousands of pages of court documents ...