Court Opinion

ID: 9733876
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:19:32.320433+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:44.231439
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Levin, J.
I concur in the opinion of the Court except Part 111(B)(3) respecting the failure to give SJI2d 5.02 concerning the impeachment of a party by a prior inconsistent statement.
For the reasons set forth in n 12 of the opinion of the Court, the instruction was not "applicable” and the judge did not err in failing to give the instruction. Defendants had shown that plaintiff *187might have made an inconsistent statement. "It is,” in the words of the opinion of the Court, "difficult to conceive of any benefit of which the plaintiff might have been deprived from the jury not considering his prior inconsistent statements as substantive evidence.” (Emphasis in original.)
Williams, C.J., concurred with Levin, J.