eBook details
- Title: State V. Riggs
- Author : Arizona Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 15, 1997
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 88 KB
Description
In State v. Taggart, 186 Ariz. 569, 925 P.2d 710 (App. 1996), a panel of Division One of the Court of Appeals held, in an opinion authored by Judge Kleinschmidt, that a criminal defendant is always permitted to bring out at trial a victim's refusal of a pretrial interview with the defendant. In State v. Riggs, 186 Ariz. 573, 925 P.2d 714 (App. 1996), a different panel of Division One held, with Judge Kleinschmidt Dissenting, that a criminal defendant is never permitted to bring out at trial a victim's refusal of a pretrial interview with the defendant when the victim's sole reason for refusing the interview is that the victim had a constitutional right to do so.