[DOWNLOAD] "Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Willis" by Supreme Court of Kentucky " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Willis
- Author : Supreme Court of Kentucky
- Release Date : January 03, 1986
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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This is a direct appeal from a conviction of first degree murder and a sentence of death. La. Const. art. V, § 5(D). The guilt phase of the case turned on the identification of defendant as the murderer. The principal issues on appeal are (1) whether the trial court properly admitted evidence of defendants statements to a prosecution witness, supposedly offered to impeach the witness testimony at trial that defendant did not make any inculpatory statement about the murder; (2) whether defendant was denied the right to a fair trial by the prosecutors use of the so-called impeachment evidence as substantive proof of the crime through additional questioning of the witness as to the inculpatory and prejudicial details and through argument to the jury stressing the substantive value of the evidence; and (3) whether the prosecutors failure to disclose clearly exculpatory evidence bearing on identification, as required by Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and Kyles v. Whitley, 514 U.S. 419 (1995), requires reversal of the conviction.