§ 90.610, Fla. Stat. · Chapter 90. EVIDENCE CODE
Conviction of certain crimes as impeachment.
Text — 2026 Florida Statutes
(1) A party may attack the credibility of any witness, including an accused, by evidence that the witness has been convicted of a crime if the crime was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of 1 year under the law under which the witness was convicted, or if the crime involved dishonesty or a false statement regardless of the punishment, with the following exceptions:
(a) Evidence of any such conviction is inadmissible in a civil trial if it is so remote in time as to have no bearing on the present character of the witness.
(b) Evidence of juvenile adjudications are inadmissible under this subsection.
(2) The pendency of an appeal or the granting of a pardon relating to such crime does not render evidence of the conviction from which the appeal was taken or for which the pardon was granted inadmissible. Evidence of the pendency of the appeal is admissible.
(3) Nothing in this section affects the admissibility of evidence under s. 90.404 or s. 90.608.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
s. 1, ch. 76-237; s. 1, ch. 77-77; ss. 16, 22, ch. 78-361; ss. 1, 2, ch. 78-379; s. 489, ch. 95-147.
Source of truth
- Edition
- 2026 Florida Statutes
- Official file
- https://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0000-0099/0090/0090.html
- Text hash
- sha256 e3cd97543732ed2b5559a24186280a182fe3435e0fbf10b0496157f24595648e
- Composed by
- compose_v2.py 2026-10-04: the Legislature's structured HTML read in document order; verify_v2.py's independent reading agrees character for character
- composed from the Legislature's structured HTML (one source of text; no PDF extraction); a second, independent reading of the same bytes agrees character for character
This section cites
Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites § 90.610, Fla. Stat.. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
The Florida Statutes
- § 90.404, Fla. Stat.Character evidence; when admissible.Printed as s. 90.610; ss. 90.608-90.610
- § 90.608, Fla. Stat.Who may impeach.Printed as s. 90.610
- § 90.803, Fla. Stat.Hearsay exceptions; availability of declarant immaterial.Printed as s. 90.610
- § 112.536, Fla. Stat.Requirements for maintaining a Brady identification system.Printed as s. 90.610
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.