# Smith v. Durant

> Oregon Supreme Court · April 1, 1975 · 271 Or. 643

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9553380

## Case

- **Full name:** SMITH, Appellant, v. DURANT, Respondent
- **Court:** Oregon Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 1, 1975
- **Citations:** 271 Or. 643; 534 P.2d 955; 1975 Ore. LEXIS 549
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by O'Connell
- **Judges:** O'Connell, Denecke
- **Cited by:** 12 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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”

## Opinion text

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.

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