273 Pa. Super. 147 - Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
November 1984
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Mabie · Commonwealth v. Owens · Commonwealth v. Badger · Commonwealth v. Hubbard
Most-quoted passages
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“However hostile these witnesses may have appeared to be, there is no basis for the decision neither to interview them nor to attempt to do so. While hostile witnesses at trial may have presented added difficulties to appellant’s case, the question here is the decision not to interview them, not the decision to refrain from calling them at trial. Accordingly, there was no danger of hostile witnesses inflaming a jury during an interview to determine what each saw and their degree of potential hostility. Id., 467 Pa. at 475 , 359 A.2d at 374 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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