Court Opinion

ID: 9596858
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Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:53:46.545942+00
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Fletcher, Presiding Justice,
concurring.
I concur fully in the opinion. I write to suggest that when a trial court calls and examines a witness, the better practice is for the court *742to instruct the jury that by calling a witness, the court suggests nothing about credibility, and that the court’s witness is to be assessed by the jury like all other witnesses. The editorial comment to Fed. R. Civ. P. 614 recommends this course and I believe it to be a sound policy.
Decided October 16, 1995.
Miller, Rucker & Associates, Curtis W. Miller, John B. Sumner, for appellant.
Harry N. Gordon, District Attorney, Gerald W. Brown, Assistant District Attorney, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Richard J. Warren, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.