What is the impact of a defendant's claim that he would have done if he had called two sisters as witnesses by the defense?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Adams, 179 Cal.Rptr.3d 644, 336 P.3d 1223, 60 Cal.4th 541 (Cal. 2014):
purported to tell the jury why these sisters were not called as witnesses by the defense and what their testimony would have been, thereby depriving defendant of his Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses. (People v. Gaines (1997) 54 Cal.App.4th 821, 825, 63 Cal.Rptr.2d 188.)
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