Stoots v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• upholding trial court’s decision to allow Commonwealth to call defendant’s sister as adverse witness and contradict her testimony with her prior inconsistent statements
• “[P]rior inconsistent statements are, of course, not substantive evidence. They are admissible only for the purpose of contradiction and the court must so instruct the jury if requested.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).