Right To Confrontation – Cross Examination; Witness Testimony

cassiejohnson//June 12, 2015

Where a defendant argued that his right to confrontation was violated in a fraud case when the district court allegedly limited his witness cross examination, the court did not prohibit the defendant from asking the witness whether he testified to please the government and receive a reduced sentence, and the limitation on further questioning about the understanding of the witness of sentencing calculations was not an abuse of discretion since it was not relevant, and the court also did not abuse its discretion in excluding testimony from a witness who said she did not remember certain statements after the court determined that her lack of recollection was genuine. Judgment is affirmed.

14-3189 U.S. v. Brown, appealed from the Western District of Missouri, Colloton, J.

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