Miller v. State

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• witness cannot be impeached with excessively remote conviction because “a remote conviction is a poor indication of the accused’s present character”
• witness cannot be impeached with excessively remote conviction because “a remote conviction is a poor indication of the accused’s present character”
• witness cannot be impeached with excessively remote conviction because \a remote conviction is a poor indication of the accused's present character\
• reversible error to allow defendant to be impeached with remote prior convictions, the most recent being twelve years old, when there was no obvious basis for admission
• reversible error to allow defendant to be impeached with remote prior convictions, the most recent being twelve years old, when there was no obvious basis for admission

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ex Parte Miller
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-09-22· cited 142×
• Gaytan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2011-01-21· cited 134×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1998-11-18· cited 60×
• Sinegal v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1990-04-26· cited 29×
• Gordon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-08· cited 22×
• Guerra v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1983-03-30· cited 10×
• Husting v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1990-05-30· cited 9×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-09-22· cited 7×
• Castro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-06-10· cited 5×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-11-14· cited 5×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-05-19· cited 3×
• Wilbert Earl Battles v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2006-04-20
• Miller, Ex Parte Carl Eddie
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-10-28
• State v. Jennifer Brewer
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2011-01-21
• Frank Gaytan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2011-01-21
• Michael K. Mitchell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2011-01-12
• Brousseau v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-12-29