Court Opinion

ID: 9856941
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 07:07:46.547671+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:37:35.326620
License: Public Domain

SOSA, Chief Justice, specially concurring. I concur with the result reached by the Court insofar as it pertains to Mac Tyres’ first contention. The limiting of Mac Tyres’ presentation of impeachment evidence under the circumstances of this case was improper. Therefore, I concur with the Court of Appeals being reversed and the case being remanded for. a new trial. I cannot, however, agree with reversal as to Mac Tyres’ second contention. The trial court did not err in refusing to give defendant’s requested instruction No. 5, which is similar to N.M.U.J.I. Civ. 9.3, a motor vehicle instruction. In my opinion, U.J.I. Civ. 9.3 is not applicable to this particular case. The instruction should be the subject of argumentation to the jury, rather than a specific instruction. Giving defendant’s requested instruction No. 5 might, in my judgment, be construed by the jury as a directive from the court that contributory negligence was present as a matter of law.