Law » Courts » Evidence » Admissibility of evidence » Witness competence & credibility » Impeachment and rehabilitation of witnesses » Impeachment » In general a party has the right to impeach any witness » Different types of impeachment permissible » Untruthfulness » Types of evidence » Specific instances of conduct » Criminal convictions sometimes admissible » Conviction for major crime, even though not involving act of dishonesty or false statement, generally admissible to impeach » But conviction for such crime may be excluded as prejudicial » Conviction to impeach criminal defendant » Similiarity of charged crime and impeaching crime increases risk of prejudice: The similarity between...