Taylor v. Illinois
United States Supreme Court
484 U.S. 400 (1988)
Relevant factsFree
Defense counsel sought to add previously undisclosed eyewitnesses on the second day of Taylor's (defendant) trial, admitting Taylor had told him about the witnesses earlier but that counsel had been unable to locate them; after hearing one witness's testimony outside the jury's presence and finding it inconsistent with counsel's representations and suggestive of deliberate discovery-rule manipulation, the trial judge excluded the testimony.
IssueFree
Whether, where a defendant fails to identify a witness in response to a pretrial discovery request, the trial judge violates the defendant's right under the Compulsory Process Clause if he refuses to allow the undisclosed witness to testify.