FARMER, Judge.
Once again we reverse a conviction because a trial judge unduly restricted cross-examination to show bias of a key state witness. In this case, defendant was charged with battery of a booking officer at the county jail shortly after defendant's arrest on other charges. After the booking, and while the defendant and the booking officer were alone in the cell, they both ended up on the floor. Caton was unconscious for some period of time, a fact conceded...
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