How have the courts treated the government's objection to a request by counsel for information on the basis of relevancy?

The government objected to the question on the grounds of relevancy; the objection was sustained by the trial court but with the express qualification that the ruling was without prejudice to counsel's right to pursue the line of inquiry upon a demonstration of the materiality of the information sought. Counsel for appellant abandoned the inquiry without any attempt to proceed along the lines suggested by the trial judge, or to otherwise advise the court of the question's purpose. The information sought was not "inevitably and patently material." On such a record we find no error. Harris v. United States, 371 F.2d 365, 366 (9th Cir. 1967).

Affirmed.