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- Title: Delaware v. Van Arsdall
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 07, 1986
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 84 KB
Description
Respondent Robert Van Arsdall was convicted of murder in a Delaware trial court. The Supreme Court of Delaware reversed his conviction on the ground that the trial court, by improperly restricting defense counsels cross-examination designed to show bias on the part of a prosecution witness, had violated respondents confrontation rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and that such violation required automatic reversal. 486 A. 2d 1 (1984). While we agree that the trial courts ruling was contrary to the mandate of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment, we conclude that the Supreme Court of Delaware was wrong when it declined to consider whether that ruling was harmless in the context of the trial as a whole.
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