The court erred in precluding defense counsel from questioning a detective about the factual allegations in a pending federal civil lawsuit, in which the detective was a named defendant. Specifically, counsel sought to ask the arresting detective "whether he in fact found the drugs on [the plaintiff in that case]; isn't it true that [the plaintiff] did not in fact have any drugs, nonetheless you still in fact arrested him." These allegations were relevant to the detective...
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