481 So. 2d 19 - Lawhorne v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
December 1986
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McCray v. Florida · 395 So. 2d 1145 - McCrae v. State · 457 So. 2d 1084 - Ryan v. State · 99 So. 2d 565 - McArthur v. Cook · 438 So. 2d 31 - Erp v. Carroll
Most-quoted passages
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“Thus, when a criminal defendant is impeached by the disclosure on cross-examination of prior convictions, § 90.610, Fla. Stat. (1983), the defense counsel on redirect examination may attempt to rehabilitate the defendant by eliciting from the defendant the nature of the prior convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“scramble[s] the orderly procedure laid out by the Florida Rules of Evidence [and] robs the defense counsel of an important strategic tool used in cross-examination, that of impeachment of a witness through the use of prior inconsistent statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had come after the defendant had been impeached by the state with his prior convictions and defense counsel was seeking to rehabilitate him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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