California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Fries, 155 Cal.Rptr. 194, 24 Cal.3d 222, 594 P.2d 19 (Cal. 1979):
12 As stated in Malloy v. Hogan (1964) 378 U.S. 1, 13, footnote 9, 84 S.Ct. 1489, 1496, 12 L.Ed.2d 653, quoting from an earlier case, " 'in determining whether the witness really apprehends danger in answering a question, the judge cannot permit himself to be skeptical; rather must he be acutely aware that in the deviousness of crime and its detection incrimination may be approached and achieved by obscure and unlikely lines of inquiry.' "
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