State v. Merida

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the defendant failed to preserve a Confrontation Clause issue concerning a witness’s motive and bias when the record indicated that cross-examination at trial focused only on character evidence
• noting that Rule 608 is limited to impeachment of the general credibility of a witness and does not pertain to impeachment for motive or bias
• “It should at all times be remembered * * * that Rule 404(b) is fundamentally a rule of exclusion.”
• six years at shortest interval, ten years at longest
• six years at shortest interval, ten years at longest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).