State v. Settle

In this case, the defendant challenges his conviction for unlawful trespass on two evidentiary grounds. First, he asserts that the trial court erred in allowing redirect testimony by the complaining witness concerning an incident involving the defendant’s brother. Second, he challenges the exclusion of a tape recording of the incident, which was offered by the defense to attack the complaining witness’s credibility. The majority opinion concludes that the testimony concerning the incident was admissible, because “[i]t had some tendency, however insubstantial, to show that the witness was…