Commonwealth v. McEnany

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• holding that prior convictions of robbery and burglary involve “dishonesty” and so are admissible to impeach a testifying defendant’s credibility
• concluding that “the trial court properly exercised its discretionary power, within the Uniform Business Records Act, regarding the admission of the phone records” without addressing the threshold hearsay issue
• emphasizing that the records were “generated at the moment a phone call is made”
• absent abuse of discretion, we may not disturb a trial court's ruling on admissibility of evidence for purposes of impeaching a defendant or witness
• absent abuse of discretion, we may not disturb a trial court’s ruling on admissibility of evidence for purposes of impeaching a defendant or witness
• call records systematically and contemporaneously created by a computer system in the regular course of business were admissible despite the fact that they were translated from binary code to English for purposes of trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).