State v. Gassler

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a district court did not abuse its discretion by admitting evidence of an attempted second- degree murder conviction at a first-degree murder trial
• stating that if the admission of prior convictions prevents a jury from hearing a defendant’s version of events, this weighs against admission of prior convictions
• noting that if a fact-finder hears the defendant’s version of the events, this factor weighs in favor of admissibility
• stating that the importance-of-defendant’s-testimony factor supports exclusion of impeachment evidence if, by admitting it, a defendant’s account of the events would not be heard by the jury
• finding that prior offense had not lost relevance due to passage of time
• stating that “it is only when a [district] court has abused its discretion under Rule 609 . . . that a defendant’s right to testify may be infringed by the threat of impeachment evidence”

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