Legal Opinion
United States v. Michel Pierre
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 17, 1986No. 561, Docket 85-1252PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal challenges the use of a prior consistent statement to rehabilitate the credibility of a witness. Specifically, the issue is whether the consistent statement of a witness may be used to meet the impeaching force of the witness’s prior inconsistent statement; the latter statement is alleged to be inconsistent with the witness’s trial testimony because a key point in the testimony was not included. The issue arises on an appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Leonard D. Wexler, Judge) convicting Michel Pierre,…
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