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· 4/15/1929

Pacific Rice Mills v. Westfeldt Bros.

Citations

  • 31 F.2d 979
  • 1929 U.S. App. LEXIS 3615
  • 1929 A.M.C. 903

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that “the evidence about the child’s character for truthfulness directly counterbalances the misleading or unfair impression created for the jury by the admission of inadmissible evidence about defendant’s character for truthfulness”
  • concluding that “the evidence about the child’s character for truthfulness directly counterbalances the misleading or unfair impression created for the jury by the admission of inadmissible evidence about defendant’s character for truth- fulness”
  • error to allow evidence of witness’s character for truthfulness when defendant had only testified to witness’s motives to lie without offering opinion as to witness’s character for truthfulness

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Judges: Bryan, Foster, Walker

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