Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 5/13/1999

Commonwealth v. McEnany

Citations

732 A.2d 1263
1999 Pa. Super. 112
1999 Pa. Super. LEXIS 891

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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

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Judges: Kelly, Brosky, and Beck

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