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Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1/31/2001

State v. Maxwell

Citations

  • 18 P.3d 438
  • 172 Or. App. 142
  • 2001 Ore. App. LEXIS 79

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  • holding that the trial court did not err in excluding opinion testimony of a witness who had employed the other witness for three weeks in the year before the trial
  • holding that the test for the harmlessness of non-constitutional error is whether the appellate court \can fairly say that the error did not appreciably affect the jury's verdict\
  • holding that the trial court abused its discretion in excluding opinion testimony of a witness who had seen the other witness more than 40 to 50 times within a two-year period
  • holding that the trial court did not err in excluding testimony of a character witness who had only known the person for three weeks and whose opinion was based on a single incident in which the person had failed to disclose prior convictions on her employment application
  • affirming exclusion of character witness where witness based opinion on single encounter because “[t]o hold otherwise would mean that the distinction between character traits and individual misdeeds would be obliterated”
  • foundation objection was that, because the defendant’s character witness’ testimony was based on an isolated incident of untruthfulness, the defendant failed to lay a proper foundation for its admission

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Judges: Edmonds, Deits, Armstrong

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