Commonwealth v. Armstrong

OPINION OF THE COURT BY CHIEF JUSTICE MINTON

We accepted discretionary review of this criminal case to determine whether a witness's status as a parolee is admissible on cross-examination as impeachment pursuant to Kentucky Rule of Evidence (KRE) 611 despite the provision of KRE 609(b) that would render as presumptively too remote in time evidence of the more than thirty-year-old conviction upon which the witness's parole was based. We hold that even though evidence of a conviction may be prohibited to allow a general attack on the witness's credibility under KRE 609(b), evidence of the…