State v. Hardy

— Patrick Hardy appeals a second degree robbery conviction, asserting a prior drug conviction was improperly admitted into evidence contrary to ER 609(a)(1). The Court of Appeals affirmed, but we reverse. As held in State v. Jones, 101 Wn.2d 113, 122, 677 P.2d 131 (1984), overruled in part on other grounds by State v. Ray, 116 Wn.2d 531, 546, 806 P.2d 1220 (1991) prior drug *705convictions "have little to do with a defendant’s credibility as a witness . . . .”

FACTS

At trial complaining witness Shamsa Wilkins testified that as she stood on a downtown Seattle street corner at 4:30 in the morning,…