GREGORY CHANDLER--REHABILITATION EVIDENCE

At times, a trial attorney seeks to rehabilitate a witness.  An interesting appellate case is United States v. Bernal,  719 F. 2d 1475 (9th Cir. 1983).  Here, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed drug convictions. The Court sustained the introduction of co-conspirator's statement to rehabilitate a conspirator whose statement had been introduced under Federal Rule of Evidence Rule 801(d) (2)(E) and who was impeached with a prior inconsistent statement. 

GREGORY CHANDLER, Attorney at Law