174 Conn. App. 760 - State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “There is no doubt that if evidence of a felony conviction is otherwise admissible, the name of the crime is generally also admissible. See Conn. Code Evid. § 6-7(c) ( [i]f, for purposes of impeaching the credibility of a witness, evidence is introduced that the witness has been convicted of a crime, the court shall limit the evidence to the name of the crime ... except that ... the court may exclude evidence of the name of the crime ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 624 - State v. Swilling

2. “The second category involves convictions for crimes that do not reflect directly on the credibility of one who has been convicted of them .... The theory behind the admissibility of these convictions as evidence of credibility posits that conviction of a crime demonstrates a bad general character, a general readiness to do evil and that such a disposition alone supports an inference of a readiness to lie in the particular case ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 624 - State v. Swilling

3. “As indicated in § 6-7, the court has discretion to admit the prior conviction as an unnamed felony. Factors to consider include whether the prior crime reflects directly on credibility and whether the prejudice inherent in the name of the crime outweighs the probative impeaching value ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 624 - State v. Swilling