Moore v. State

This case presents the issue of whether a Defense Witness question is mandatory i.e., whether a “trial court [must] ask potential jurors on voir dire whether they would tend to view the testimony of witnesses called by the defense with more skepticism than that of witnesses called by the State, merely because they were called by the defense[.]” In Bowie v. State, having concluded that it is “necessary to determine whether witnesses called by the State will start with a ‘presumption of credibility1 simply because of the positions occupied rather *641than the facts of the case,” this Court held…