O'Reilly v. State

Convicted of a violation of section 800.-04(1), Florida Statutes (1985), appellant challenges rulings of the trial court refusing to permit defense counsel to elicit certain testimony from the mother of the victim and precluding the defense from putting on the testimony of a defense witness.

The purpose of the questions which defense counsel was prevented from pursuing as well as the testimony of the witness which the court refused to allow defense counsel to call was to establish bias and thus to impeach the credibility of the state’s principal witness, the mother of the victim. Not only…