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053864P.pdf   04/26/2007  United States  v.  Xavier Lightfoot
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-3864
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Riley and Shepherd, Circuit
   Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. Claim that the district court improperly
   restricted the cross-examination of cooperating government witnesses
   rejected, as the evidence had the potential for undue prejudice and jury
   confusion and defendant had a variety of other evidence challenging these
   witnesses' motivation and credibility; other challenges to evidentiary
   rulings rejected; court would not reach defendant's Witherspoon
   challenge as the death penalty was not applied in this case and the remedy
   for a Witherspoon violation only applies in death cases; speedy trial claim
   rejected.