State v. Thomas

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for criminal mischief in the second degree, ORS 164.354. She contends that the trial court erred in refusing to admit certified copies of the Oregon Judicial Information Network (OJIN) register that she had offered to establish an adverse witness’s alleged prior convictions for impeachment purposes. OEC 609(1) provides that “evidence that the witness has been convicted of [certain] crime [s] shall be admitted” to attack the “credibility of a witness” if the evidence is “elicited from the witness or established by public record.” Defendant argues that…