Sanchez v. State

Hector Sanchez asserts that the trial court committed reversible error by restricting Sanchez’s right to cross-examine the state’s key witness, Carlos Camacho, during Sanchez’s trial on charges of first-degree murder, armed robbery, and trafficking in cocaine. The jury convicted Sanchez of the lesser included offenses of third-degree murder without a firearm and robbery without a firearm. For the following reasons, we affirm Sanchez’s conviction and sentence.

Sanchez’s theory of defense was that Camacho had portrayed Sanchez as the mastermind and triggerman in the robbery-homicide in order to…