Legal Opinion
Honey v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided February 10, 1986No. 84SC31PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUBOFSKY, Justice.
We granted certiorari in People v. Honey, No. 82CA0887 (Colo.App. Sept. 22, 1983), to consider whether the district court erred in excluding opinion evidence regarding the truthfulness of the complaining witness. The court of appeals held that the district court’s exclusion of the evidence was proper because a trial court has discretion to exclude irrelevant and immaterial matters. Although we determine that the district court committed error in ruling that the defendant failed to establish a foundation sufficient to enable him to introduce opinion evidence about the…
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