How have the courts interpreted the mandatory presumption that any witness who has been convicted of a crime is less believable as a result?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Samaniego, H035530 (Cal. App. 2011):
Constitutions. (People v. Jablonski, supra, 37 Cal.4th at p. 831.) To put it simply, the trial court's inadvertent misreading of the instruction does not appear to be error, because no reasonable juror would have understood the instruction to impose on them a mandatory presumption that any witness who has previously been convicted of a crime is less believable as a result.
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