re: #62 lawhawk

Rules of evidence limit whether and how this can be introduced.

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Of particular note:

This is what I was addressing in my prior comments above. The prosecutors can only bring this up as character evidence if the defense opens the door first.

So in this case, supposedly the main (and possibly only) eyewitness is the person being prosecuted (whose word we have to take at face value). It is his word against no one else, but you can’t bring in evidence that his word might not be worth whale shit at the bottom of the ocean. Is that about right?