Federal Rules of Evidence - Rules 609(A) and 403 - Witnesses - Impeachment by Prior Criminal Conviction

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1 January 1984
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Duquesne Scholarship Collection

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The Federal District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has held that evidence of a prior criminal conviction can not be used to impeach the credibility of a plaintiff in a civil suit. Tussel v. Witco Chemical Corp., 555 F. Supp. 979 (W.D. Pa. 1983)

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