Opinion ID: 1418276
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: The offer of the record of defendant's prior conviction for the purpose of collateral estoppel.

Text: As previously stated, plaintiff also offered in evidence the record of the judgment of defendant's prior conviction for failure to yield the right-of-way at the time of the accident involved in this case as substantive evidence for the purpose of collaterally estopping defendant from denying that allegation of negligence in plaintiff's complaint, so as to thus establish his negligence in this case. The trial judge rejected the offer of that record for that purpose for two reasons: (1) It is not within the pleadings, and (2) a non-attorney represented conviction in District Court does not fall within the purview of collateral estoppel as set out by Casey v. Northwest  and it would be inherently unfair to have that constitute an adjudication    [of] plaintiff's [and]    defendant's rights.