Scalissi v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence that the defendant had raped the victim's companion was admissible under lack of accident to rebut the defendant's claim that he accidentally shot the victim
• holding that, “[e]ven if the prior theft convictions had not been admitted, the jury would have had substantial impeachment evidence before it to cast doubt on the credibility of Defendant’s testimony”
• explaining that “when a jury is properly instructed by the trial court, the jury is presumed to have followed such instructions”
• providing a non-exhaustive list of factors appropriate to consider when the defendant is the witness to be impeached
• harmless error to allow impeachment evidence where other impeachment evidence submitted which cast doubt on defendant's credibility
• “Rule 609(b) . . . is a rule that presumes the exclusion of convictions more than ten years old.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).