47347 Precedential Affirmed Processed

State v. Taylor

Minnesota Supreme Court · Filed March 17, 1978 · 264 N.W.2d 157

Cited by

State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2021
State of Minnesota, Respondent, Minn. Ct. App. 2018
State v. Ramey 721 N.W.2d 294 Minn. 2006
State v. Jones 451 N.W.2d 55 Minn. Ct. App. 1990
State v. Marchand 410 N.W.2d 912 Minn. Ct. App. 1987
State v. Owens 373 N.W.2d 313 Minn. 1985
State v. Zernechel 304 N.W.2d 365 Minn. 1981

Authorities cited

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Witzig v. Philips 144 N.W.2d 266
State v. Schweppe 237 N.W.2d 609
State v. West 173 N.W.2d 468
City of St. Paul v. DiBucci 229 N.W.2d 507
State v. Stevenson 209 N.W.2d 915
State v. Stewart 297 Minn. 57

Opinion text

PER CURIAM. Defendant was found guilty by. a district court jury of a charge of making terroristic threats in violation of Minn.St. 609.713, and was sentenced by the trial court to a limited maximum term of 1 year and 1 day in prison. The sole issue on this appeal from judgment of conviction and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial is whether the trial court prejudicially erred in permitting the state to elicit on cross-examination of defendant that approximately 6 years earlier, when he was 20 years old, he had been convicted in Iowa of possessing marijuana. While we agree with defendant that the crime arguably had very little relevance to the truth-seeking process or to defendant’s credibility as a witness, we do not think this is a case like State v. Stewart, 297 Minn. 57 , 209 N.W.2d 913 (1973), where the interests of justice warrant granting defendant a new trial on this ground. We note in passing that the issue of impeachment by prior conviction is now governed by Rule 609, Rules of Evidence, effective July 1, 1977. Affirmed.