Court Opinion

ID: 9728562
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:11:16.411122+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:49.768646
License: Public Domain

M. F. Cavanagh, J.
(concurring). I concur with my brothers that defendant’s conviction should be affirmed. I do so separately, however, because I do not agree with the majority’s "Some General Observations” of the MRE 609(a) question. The statement by the majority that, "Perjury occurs often in criminal trials, especially by the defendant who has the most to gain by it”, is a generalization which I feel is factually unsound and hardly an appropriate guideline for those charged with the responsibility of rendering an impartial determination of guilt or innocence. As I find no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s admission of evidence of prior convictions in this case, I would affirm.