State ex rel. Cash v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that, because victim was “the only person other than the defendant in the room when the assault occurred,” her testimony regarding the assault was “instrumental to the State’s case” and impeachment was not used merely to introduce otherwise inadmissible evidence
• explaining that a party can impeach its own witness with a prior inconsistent statement, but cannot do so under “the guise of impeachment for the primary purpose of placing before the jury otherwise inadmissible substantive evidence”
• referring to the “Roberts test”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).