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· 4/4/1989

Powers v. Officer Cheeley

Citations

  • 771 P.2d 622
  • 307 Or. 585
  • 1989 Ore. LEXIS 118

How courts have described this case

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

  • witness may not testify that, if certain testimony were given by another witness, it would be “fabrication”
  • “other evidence of like effect diminishes any argument that a substantial right was affected by the [erroneously admitted evidence]”
  • if contradictions in testimony alone amounted to charges of fabrication, the argument would apply in many cases and, in effect, repeal the rule of OEC 801(4)(a)(B), rewarding “the garrulous but not the reticent”
  • setting out this court's cases developing the rule
  • setting out this court’s cases developing the rule

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Judges: Fadeley

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