Court Opinion

ID: 9736154
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 18:45:23.408718+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:27:04.725478
License: Public Domain

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE JONES, specially concurring: I concur with the majority opinion except as to that portion which holds that it was error to permit the People to present rebuttal testimony of a bribe offer to Ms. Perry. Defendants presented evidence that Ms. Perry had offered her services for money and decided to prosecute only upon the failure of defendants to pay. This testimony was a direct attack upon the credibility of Ms. Perry by attempting to show that she was motivated by money. It thereupon became proper for the People to adduce, in rebuttal, evidence that Ms. Perry was offered, and refused, a bribe to withdraw the prosecution. Such testimony would not be admissible to show guilt or innocence of the defendants, but it would be admissible as having a bearing upon the credibility of Ms. Perry as a witness whose motive for testifying was money. I would rule the rebuttal testimony admissible.