Palmer v. Dermitt

McFADDEN, Justice.

Defendant, Francis Palmer, was convicted of first degree burglary on July 19,1976, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment not to exceed fourteen years. This court affirmed his conviction in State v. Palmer, 98 Idaho 845, 574 P.2d 533 (1978), (hereinafter Palmer I), holding that the prosecutor’s use of the defendant’s prior felony conviction for impeaching what the defendant testified he was doing at the scene of the crime went to the credibility of the defendant’s testimony, and therefore was a permissible use of the defendant’s felony record.

Palmer then filed a pro se…