Legal Opinion
Delaware v. Van Arsdall
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 7, 1986No. 84-1279PublishedCited by 5,932 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
Respondent Robert Van Arsdall was convicted of murder in a Delaware trial court. The Supreme Court of Delaware reversed his conviction on the ground that the trial court, by improperly restricting defense counsel’s cross-examination designed to show bias on the part of a prosecution witness, had violated respondent’s confrontation rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and that such violation required automatic reversal. 486 A. 2d 1 (1984). While we agree that the trial court’s ruling was contrary to the mandate of the Confrontation Clause of the…
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