| Venue: | SCOTUS |
| Facts: | It's a drunken party, and a woman gets killed. |
| Posture: | Convicted at trial, reversed by DE SC. Prosecutor appeals? |
| Issue: | Was the trial court's exclusion of evidence showing bias on the part of a prosecution witness error, and was it harmful? |
| Holding: | Yes, and don't know. Vacated. Remanded. |
| Rule: | The Confrontation Clause of 6A secures "for the opponent the opportunity of cross-examination." There are limits to this, though, and not all infringements on this right are necessarily prejudicial. |
| Reasoning: | Yes, this was a bad decision, but the DE SC needed to analyze whether it was harmful to the outcome or not. There has to be a "harmless error" analysis. |
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