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• Title: Roy v. Illinois
• Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Release Date : January 31, 1990
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 46 KB

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Order The district court's order granting Roy's petition for a writ of habeas corpus and directing the state to retry Roy or release him within one hundred twenty days is affirmed, for the reasons stated in Judge Baker's excellent opinion. The state called nine witnesses to testify against Roy, of whom eight gave apparently irrelevant testimony. Only one, Mark Johnson, had ever dealt with Roy. The other eight had only dealt with Johnson; six of those eight testified that they didn't even know of Roy; and none, except Johnson, connected Roy to any drug transaction in any way. The Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants a right to try to expose the ""possible biases, prejudices, or ulterior motives"" of the witnesses against them. Davis v. Alaska, 415 U.S. 308, 316 (1974). Roy's right to cross-examine Johnson about the motives for his testimony, including any interest that Johnson may have had as a result of his plea bargain with the state, was foreclosed. The Sixth Amendment required the trial court to allow Roy to pursue that line of cross-examination and to pursue it fully and not cut off questioning simply because it might have disclosed or permitted Johnson asserted that he didn't know what his sentence might otherwise have been or how much it might have been reduced in return for his testimony.

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