Payne v. Carroll

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that improper impeachment renders the witness not only unworthy of belief in the eyes of the jury \but also morally undeserving\ of a favorable verdict
• holding that mentioning that a party defendant had a prior felony conviction involving fraud could mean more to the jury than she was a person of doubtful veracity because the civil case involved allegations of her committing fraud
• finding that the danger of prejudice flowing from the disclosure of the nature of the felony conviction “outweighed its probative value”
• finding that Va. Code § 19.2-269, permitting such impeachment, applies in civil cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).