State of Utah v. Rodney W. Smith : Unknown

Authors

Utah Court of Appeals

Docket Number

900214

Document Type

Legal Brief

Publication Date

1990

Abstract

I wish to cite to the Court additional support for the State's argument that defendant's inquiry on remand into the prior felony convictions of a key prosecution witness is properly limited solely to impeachment purposes under Rule 609, Utah Rules of Evidence and that defendant may not inquire concerning the convictions under Rule 404(b), Utah Rules of Evidence. United States v. McCourt, 925 F.2d 1229 (9th Cir. 1991) (holding that evidence of prior criminal conduct, no matter by whom, is not admissible for the purpose of proving propensity or conforming conduct). Br. of Appellee at 14-18.

This supplemental authority is submitted pursuant to Rule 24(j), Utah Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Comments

Original Brief Submitted to the Utah Court of Appeals; digitized by the Howard W. Hunter Law Library, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; machine-generated OCR, may contain errors.
R. Paul Van Dam; Attorney General; Attorney for Appellee.
Elizabeth Holbrook; Salt Lake Legal Defender Assoc.; Attorney for Appellant.

Rights

Public record document (some rights may be reserved).

Recommended Citation

Legal Brief, Utah v. Smith, No. 900214 (Utah Court of Appeals, 1990).
https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/byu_ca1/2602