How have the courts treated the testimony of a witness in a sexual assault case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Carpenter, 21 Cal.4th 1016, 90 Cal.Rptr.2d 607, 988 P.2d 531 (Cal. 1999):
Moreover, rather than being "crucial" (Davis v. Alaska, supra, 415 U.S. at p. 310, 94 S.Ct. 1105), this witness was minor in the context of the entire case. Even assuming the court permitted the prosecution to elicit too much information, and the defense too little, we would find the error harmless under any standard.
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