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Didn Chambers v Mississippi holt it unconstitutional for a judge to prevent a criminal defendants witnesses from testifying?

April 26, 2017chambers criminal defendant Holt judge Mississippi unconstitutional

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Didn Chambers v Mississippi holt it unconstitutional for a judge to prevent a criminal defendants witnesses from testifying?

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Chambers v Mississippi acknowledged judges’ reasonable discretion to exclude misleading evidence, then found the trial judge’s exclusion of three reputable witnesses to whom a person other than the defendant had confessed the crime to be unreasonable.