Stone v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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1. ““This section of the Rules, as well as its predecessor 601 of the previous Code, has been uniformly construed to give the trial judge a broad discretion m the matter of permitting or refusing to permit a witness to testify who has violated the rule. See Murphy v. Phelps, 241 Ky. 339 , 43 S.W.2d 1010 , and 88 C.J.S. Trial § 65. “ * * * Certainly, we cannot say the trial judge abused his discretion. In any event, the order for exclusion was violated, and it was within the sound discretion of the trial court to allow or not permit the witness to testify.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson-Kitchens Ford Corp. v. Shifflett

2. ““It is the established general rule that the provisions of the due process clause in a state constitution and in the Federal Constitution are inhibitions upon the power of government and its agencies, not upon freedom of action of private persons. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hood v. Commonwealth

3. “It [Section 10] has never been held, however, to embrace or be applicable to a private individual who, through a process of spying or other form of trespass, discloses evidence against another.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Cooper