CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Witness Credibility Evidence
......Prior Convictions
.........Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude
............Firearms
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The determination that a prior criminal act is a crime of moral turpitude is tantamount to finding that it may be used for impeachment, subject to the trial court's discretion under EC §352.

Carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle in violation of PC 25400(a)(1) is a crime of moral turpitude which may be used as impeachment.

As conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm is a crime of moral turpitude, trial court did not err as a matter of law in allowing the use of the conviction for impeachment.

Though witness' prior conviction for discharging firearm with gross negligence was crime of moral turpitude, court did not abuse its discretion in excluding it as a form of impeachment under EC 352.

Possession of unregistered firearm is crime involving moral turpitude.