Acord v. Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “a prior inconsistent statement of a declarant is admissible to impeach the declarant.”
• rejecting the appellant’s claim that “imposition of a life sentence for second- degree murder is ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ under both the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions”
• addressing due process challenge to evidentiary rulings of trial court on direct appeal
• imposition of life sentence not unconstitutional “cruel and unusual punishment” under United States and Pennsylvania constitutions
• failure to object to evidence of prior bad acts at trial results in waiver
• rejecting identical claim based upon Middleton

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).