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53 Akron L. Rev. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/aklr53 and id is 1 raw text is: DOES IMPEACHMENT BY CONVICTION CREATE UNDUE PREJUDICE? AN EXPERIMENT AND AN ANALYSIS David Crump * I. Introduction ..................... .........2 II. The Rule Limiting Convictions of the Criminal Defendant ....................................4 A. What Are the Factors That the Rule Balances? ......4 B. Which Convictions Carry How Much Impeachment Value? .................. .............6 C. The Need for Impeachment and the Need for the Defendant's Story .......................8 D. Estimating the Degree of Prejudice Created by the Conviction. ............................ 9 II. Experimental Evaluation of Predudice . ........... 11 A. The Experiment: Two Pairs of Scenarios, Illustrated by Appendices A and B to This Article ................... ...........11 B. The Hypothesis Formed before the Experiment- and the Experimental Design ..... ..........13 C. The Previous Experiments ................ 14 D. How This Experiment Is Different . ..........15 E. The Result of the Experiment ..... .........15 IV. The Limits of the Experiment and Suggestions for Further Research ..................... ..... 17 A. The Meaning of the Experiment ..............17 B. Incidental Results ......... .............19 C. Further Research ........ ...............20 V. Conclusion.............................22 * A.B. Harvard; J.D. University of Texas. John B. Neibel Professor of Law, University of Houston.

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