State v. Calegar

— Michael Calegar argues that a prior conviction for possession of a controlled substance was inadmissible to impeach his testimony in his trial for obtaining a controlled substance by means of a forged prescription.

On October 22, 1993, Calegar went to the emergency room at Valley Medical Center for an eye injury sustained in his job as a welder. The examining physician, Dr. Larry Kedig, wrote Calegar three prescriptions in black ink, including one prescription for eight tablets of Vicodin, a narcotic pain-killer. Dr. Kedig placed the prescriptions on a clipboard hung outside Calegar’s…