61 Md. App. 151 - Duckett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
October 2009
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ricketts v. State · Linkins v. State · Burgess v. State · Taylor v. State · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Strube
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) The credibility of a witness is always a relevant issue in any case, civil or criminal; (2) When a defendant in a criminal case elects to testify in his own defense, he subjects himself to the same rules of cross-examination that govern other witnesses; (3) Evidence of a witness’s prior conviction of an infamous crime is always admissible to impeach his credi bility regardless of the age of that conviction. Md. Cts. & Jud.Proc.Code Ann. § 10-905 (Repl.Vol.1984, Cum.Supp.1987). 8 (4) The admissibility of evidence of a witness’s prior conviction of a non-infamous crime is left to the sound discretion of the trial judge who must consider the nature of the crime and the length of time since it occurred in determining the relevance of the conviction to the witness’s credibility.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The crimes which the common law regarded as infamous because of their moral turpitude were treason, felony, perjury, forgery and those other offenses, classified generally as crimen falsi, which impressed upon their perpetrator such a moral taint that to permit him to testify in legal proceedings would injuriously affect the public administration of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) In General. — Evidence is admissible to prove the interest of a witness in any proceeding, or the fact of his conviction of an infamous crime. Evidence of conviction is not admissible if an appeal is pending, or the time for an appeal has not expired, or the conviction has been reversed, and there has been no retrial or reconviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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