State v. Ruble

LARSON, Justice.

Alleged accomplices of the defendant testified for the State in the defendant’s prosecution for kidnapping in the first degree, assault while participating in a felony, and conspiracy to commit murder. The first accomplice to testify was arrested because his testimony was claimed to have been false, thus breaching a plea agreement under which he was to testify truthfully as to the facts surrounding the crimes. Also, in the defendant’s later cross-examination of another of these accomplices, the defendant was precluded from inquiring about the witness’s “fear” of the…