Rivers v. K-Mart Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• in bifurcated trial, trial court accounted for risk of improper influence on jury by excluding evidence of criminal record during liability phase
• in bifurcated trial, trial court accounted for risk of improper influence on jury by excluding evidence of criminal record during liability phase.
• “As a general rule, admission of evidence is a matter resting within the sound discretion of the trial court, and appellate courts will not disturb the exercise of that discretion absent evidence of its abuse.”
• “As a general rule, admission of evidence is a matter resting within the sound discretion of the trial court, and appellate courts will not disturb the exercise of that discretion absent evidence of its abuse.”
• “As a general rule, admission of evidence is a matter resting within the sound discretion of the trial court, and appellate courts will not disturb the exercise of that discretion absent evidence of its abuse.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).