Tabron v. Grace’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
January 2014
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Green v. Bock Laundry MacHine Co. · Cummings v. Malone
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“[a] murder conviction, on the other hand, has the potential to do more than create a credibility handicap. It has the potential to so prejudice the jury that its weighing of all the factual issues in the entire case may be impaired. Where a particular murder conviction is of little or no relevance to other issues in the underlying litigation, and there are other means available to undermine credibility, then it is a short step to find that the potential for prejudice from introducing the murder conviction will substantially outweigh its probative value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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