Sentences with phrase «impeachment purposes»

On request of any party in a case tried before a jury, deposition testimony offered other than for impeachment purposes shall be presented in nonstenographic form, if available, unless the court for good cause orders otherwise.

The report numbers each question and answer so it is easy to reference in your examination outline for impeachment purposes.

The disclosure requirements of evidence used for substantive purposes differ from those used for impeachment purposes.

Rule 30.09 of the Rules of Civil Procedure requires that if surveillance is to be used as substantive evidence at trial, then counsel must give the opposite party notice of its intention to use the evidence, and the evidence itself must be produced to the opposite party at least 90 days before the commencement of trial.7 If counsel fails to do so, the Court will limit the use of that evidence to impeachment purposes only, except where a trial judge grants leave to use the evidence for substantive purposes.

Not exact matches

An article of impeachment shall not be divisible for the purpose of voting thereon at any time during the trial.

If so, the deposition will be less useful for impeachment and other purposes.

Assuming the documentary productions could be used to impeach the plaintiff / complainant in the course of her testimony at the criminal trial (impeachment is a recognized exception to the deemed undertaking rule, in that Rule 30.1 does not prohibit discovery evidence being used for this purpose), the civil defence lawyer emailed the plaintiff's productions to his criminal counterpart.

So you lose an evidentiary argument and the court allows some potentially prejudicial evidence to be presented for some narrow purpose such as bias, impeachment or to show intent, similar plan, motive or scheme.

Impeaching Your Own Witness: Even though Evidence Rule 607 authorizes a party to impeach the credibility of his own witness, a party is forbidden from placing a witness on the stand if his sole purpose in doing so is to present otherwise inadmissible evidence cloaked as impeachment.

Hopefully, the information here will allow you to make use of a prior criminal conviction for purposes of impeachment and prevent such evidence from being misused against your client should the tables be turned upon you.