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Evidence: Impeachment by Evidence of a Criminal Conviction
'This material is about Federal Rule of Evidence 609: Impeachment by Evidence of Criminal Conviction. The goal of the party in impeaching a witness is to use the witness’s prior conviction(s) to prove that the witness has a propensity to be deceitful and that the witness is likely acting in conformity with that propensity by lying on the witness stand and/or when making a prior statement admitted at trial to prove the truth of the matter...
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- Material Type:
- Open (Access) Textbook
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- October 7, 2013
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- July 24, 2020
- Author:
- Colin Miller, University of South Carolina School of Law
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Cathy Swift
- Primary Audience:
- Graduate School
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- English
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