rejecting balanc- ing as to impeachment of a nondefendant witness with prior convictions, noting that “the same evidence admitted in one court might well be excluded by another,” such that “the result in a case might well depend upon what court or judge it is tried before”
How later courts described this case
- rejecting balanc- ing as to impeachment of a nondefendant witness with prior convictions, noting that “the same evidence admitted in one court might well be excluded by another,” such that “the result in a case might well depend upon what court or judge it is tried before”
- impeachment by proof of other crimes
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
O’CONNELL, C. J.,
dissenting.
I dissent for the reasons stated in my dissent in Marshall v. Martinson, 268 Or 46, 59 , 518 P2d 1312, 1318 (1974).
Denecke, J., joins in this dissent.