Does the fact that it is a defendant who seeks to use prior felony convictions to impeach an adverse witness in a criminal case have to allow the evidence to be impeached?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Vindiola, 158 Cal.Rptr. 6, 96 Cal.App.3d 370 (Cal. App. 1979):
The fact that it is a defendant who seeks to use prior felony convictions to impeach an adverse witness should weigh in favor of permitting the evidence as impeachment. (People v. Stevenson (1978) 79 Cal.App.3d 976, 989-990, 145 Cal.Rptr. 301.)
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