Trumbull Chevrolet Sales Co. v. Rigdon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the enactment of 42 Pa.C.S. § 9303 has halted operation of section 1933's ‘general-specific’ rule of statutory construction in the context of criminal prosecutions”
• concluding that the door was not opened to prior bad acts
• noting that Rule 404(b) evidence was inadmissible because the perpetrator’s identity was not at issue at trial
• rejecting Nypaver’s argument that he could question a co-defendant regarding prior bad acts where the co-defendant admitted to committing prior bad acts did not create a false impression that the co-defendant was a “model citizen”
• “A litigant opens the door to inadmissible evidence” if his testimony “creates a false impression refuted by the otherwise prohibited evidence.”
• “A litigant opens the door to inadmissible evidence by presenting proof that creates a false impression refuted by the otherwise prohibited evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).