State v. Batchelor

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it was error for court to admit evidence of defendant’s prior offenses to show reason for witness’s bias against defendant, because evidence merely showed defendant’s tendency to commit similar offenses and did not actually rebut defendant’s allegation of bias
• stating that open-door doctrine is not tool for “prosecutorial ‘over-kill’ ”
• admission of prior convictions not involving moral turpitude for purpose of affecting credibility of criminal defendant is reversible error
• the doctrine isn’t a tool for “prosecutorial ‘over-kill’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).