California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jones, B271239 (Cal. App. 2017):
Defendant contends his prior convictions are too remote to be probative of his credibility. We do not agree. Crimes that are remote in time are not "automatically inadmissible for impeachment purposes. Even a fairly remote prior conviction is admissible if the defendant has not led a legally blameless life since the time of the remote prior. [Citations.]" (People v. Mendoza (2000) 78 Cal.App.4th 918, 925-926.)
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