Is there any case law where a prosecution witness was on probation at the time of his testimony?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Davis, C077055 (Cal. App. 2017):
The defense cites Davis v. Alaska (1974) 415 U.S. 308 [39 L.Ed.2d 347], which held admissible evidence that a key prosecution witness was on juvenile probation at the time of his testimony, which the defense sought to use to argue that the witness may have been biased in favor of the prosecution out of concern of jeopardy to his own probation status.
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