Washington Supreme Court· 3/1/1990

State v. Brown

Citations

787 P.2d 906
113 Wash. 2d 520
1990 WL 28153

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noting that reasons which prompted offer of proof requirement are better served by requiring defendant to take the stand in order to preserve error
noting in dicta that to establish motive for a theft offense by demonstrating impecuni-osity of defendant requires a chain of inferences that is highly speculative and therefore of little probative value
declining to decide whether a jury instruction containing both a permissible and impermissible purpose under ER 404(b) was a basis for reversal when the issue was not properly argued on appeal
ER 609 concerned only with a conviction offered for the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness
ER 609 concerned only with a conviction offered for the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness
the trial court should explain the purpose of the evidence and give a cautionary instruction to consider it for no other purpose

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Judges: Brachtenbach, Utter, Pearson

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