Ex Parte Deardorff’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. ““The scope of cross-examination in Alabama is quite broad. Rule 611(b), Ala. R. Evid. This means that any question may be asked on cross-examination that is relevant either to any substantive issue in the case or to the witness’s credibility. See Rule 611(b), Ala. R. Evid., Advisory .Committee’s Notes. The trial court shall exercise reasonable control over the mode and order of interrogating witnesses and presenting evidence. Rule 611(a), Ala R. Eyid. Dear-dorff challenges both the testimony that he had previously killed several people and that he had previously been incarcerated, and he asserts that such testimony constitutes the improper admission of evidence of prior bad acts under Rule 404(b), Ala. R. Evid. The testimony, however, was not offered to introduce Deardorff s prior bad acts and to show that he acted in conformity with those prior bad acts, but was elicited on redirect examination by the State regarding documents that had already been offered into evidence by the defense on cross-examination.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 233 So. 3d 374 - Largin v. State

2. “Under the doctrine of invited error, a defendant cannot by his own voluntary conduct invite error and then seek to profit thereby”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. State