ABLE CYCLE v. ALLSTATE INS.


84 A.D.2d 140 (1981)

Able Cycle Engines, Inc., Doing Business as Ace Distributors, Inc., et al., Appellants, v. Allstate Insurance Company, Respondent, et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

December 28, 1981


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. O'Keeffe for appellant.

Mead, Dore & Voute, P. C. (Donald A. Mead of counsel; Emanuel Thebner on the brief), for respondent.

MOLLEN, P. J., HOPKINS and TITONE, JJ., concur.


WEINSTEIN, J.

May evidence that a witness committed a crime in a State other than New York be introduced at a trial in a New York State court for the purpose of impeaching the witness' credibility if, under the law of the State where the crime was committed, such crime could not be used for impeachment purposes? We hold that, assuming such evidence is otherwise admissible, it may be so introduced.

Plaintiff Able Cycle Engines, Inc., was engaged...

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