This case raises one important issue concerning impeachment of a defendant's credibility by evidence of his prior conviction: Rather than allowing impeachment by proof of a specifically described prior felony conviction or completely excluding any evidence of the conviction, may a trial judge in his or her discretion permit the trier of fact to be informed only that the defendant had committed a prior nonspecified...
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