Court Opinion

ID: 9759859
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 00:30:47.167571+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:05.610891
License: Public Domain

Tom Glaze, Judge, concurring. I concur. In Williams v. State, 6 Ark. App. 410, 644 S.W.2d 608 (1982), I dissented because I believed definite guidelines should be established when the admissibility of impeachment evidence under Rule 609 of the Arkansas Rules of Evidence is involved. The majority court in Williams rejected my views on the subject and refuses again in this cause to compel the trial court to make its findings required under the Rule 609 balancing process to be on the record. While I now join the majority in the result it reached in this case, I still have the same opinion as I expressed in my dissent in Williams.