Standifer v. State

BOEHM, Justice.

Daniel Standifer, Jr., was convicted of the murder, aggravated battery, criminal confinement, robbery and theft of Rick Boehm and of being a habitual offender. The trial court sentenced Standifer to an aggregate term of ninety years imprisonment. He raises one issue on appeal: whether the trial court violated his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation when it precluded him from cross-examining two of the State’s witnesses about their bias based on the fact that one was a confidential informant and the other was on parole. We agree that the trial court erred in constraining…