Redditt v. State

RODOWSKY, Judge.

Petitioner, Augustus Redditt (Redditt), was convicted on multiple counts of robbery with a deadly weapon and related offenses following a jury trial. At that trial the court would not permit a defense witness to take the stand in order to give proffered evidence of improper motive, or bias, on the part of the principal prosecution witness. The basis for exclusion was a violation of the court’s order sequestering witnesses, because the defense witness was in the courtroom during a limited examination of the prosecution witness when that witness was recalled in the defense case.…