STATE v. VAUGHN

No. 82-KA-1775.

448 So.2d 1260 (1983)

STATE of Louisiana v. John VAUGHN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Dissenting Opinion October 28, 1983.

Concurring Opinion November 7, 1983.

On Rehearing April 2, 1984.

Rehearing Denied May 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edwin O. Ware, Dist. Atty., G. Earl Humphries, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

James S. Gravel, Harold A. Van Dyke, Gravel & Van Dyke, Alexandria, for defendant-appellant.


DENNIS, Justice.*

We are called upon in this case to decide whether the Confrontation Clauses require that a defendant in a criminal case be allowed to impeach the credibility of a prosecution witness, by cross-examination directed at an established pattern of her prior sexual conduct which tended to prove that she also consented to the conduct in issue, when such an impeachment would conflict with the state's asserted interest in the...

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