Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 5/23/1997

State v. Blevins

Citations

968 S.W.2d 888
1997 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 499
1997 WL 272440

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holding that robbery conviction was crime of dishonesty and “len[t] greater weight to . . . probative value regarding credibility”
holding that the defendant’s prior convictions of burglary, attempted burglary, aggravated assault, larceny and robbery were admissible for impeachment purposes during the defendant’s trial for automobile burglary
concluding that the trial court did not err in admitting prior -5- convictions of burglary, robbery, and larceny in the defendant’s trial for burglary of an automobile and vandalism
concluding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the defendant to be impeached with burglary, robbery, and larceny convictions when the defendant was on trial for burglary of a motor vehicle
noting that robbery is a crime of dishonesty, “thus lending greater weight to [its] probative value regarding credibility”
finding that “to the extent that the [prosecutor’s] question [about the defendant’s prior conviction] was for the purpose of eliciting underlying facts of the former convictions, it was improper.”

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Judges: Tipton, Smith, Woodall

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