State v. Stanley

CATHELL, Judge.

This case requires us to examine a criminal defendant’s constitutional right to compulsory process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment and the former statute relating to the offense of assault with intent to maim, disfigure, or disable.1

Because the State’s Attorney’s comment to the prosecutorial witness about the consequences of perjury was not a threat to prosecute the witness if her testimony did not satisfy the prosecutor but merely a general warning, such comment did not deprive the defendant of his constitutional right to compulsory process.2 Furthermore, there was…