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- Title: Commonwealth v. Harris
- Author : Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
- Release Date : January 30, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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1 Appellant, Montez Harris, appeals from the judgment of sentence entered in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, following his convictions for first degree murder, possessing instruments of crime ("PIC") and carrying firearms on public streets in Philadelphia. Appellant asks us to review the trial courts ruling on Appellants motion in limine to bar the use of his prior crimen falsi convictions for impeachment purposes if Appellant decided to testify at trial; whether the Commonwealth committed numerous instances of prosecutorial misconduct which constitute reversible error; and, whether the trial court erred in allowing the Commonwealth to use a videotape without a cautionary instruction to the jury. We hold the trial court correctly decided to allow evidence of Appellants prior crimen falsi convictions, if Appellant took the stand in his own defense at trial; Appellant is not entitled to a new trial on his claims of prosecutorial misconduct; and, a cautionary instruction with regard to the videotape was not necessary in the instant case. Accordingly, we affirm.
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