Stokes v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The more the prior conviction smacks of testimonial dishonesty, the more probative weight it has”
• People v. Elliot, 274 Ill. App. 3d 901 (1995), cited by Harden, is one such case “trumped” by Williams
• “A finding that a witness’s credibility is an issue in the case establishes the relevance of an attack on that credibility by means of a prior conviction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).