609 states in pertinent part: Rule 609. Impeachment by evidence of conviction of crime (a) General Rule For the purpose of attacking the credibility of any witness, evidence that the witness has been convicted of a crime, whether by verdict or by plea of guilty or nolo contendere, shall be admitted if it involved dishonesty or false statement. (b) Time Limit Evidence of a conviction under this rule is not admissible if a period of more than ten years has elapsed since the date of the conviction or of the release of the witness from the confinement imposed for that conviction, whichever is the later date, unless nterpreting the rule contain restrictions upon utilizing a summary conviction for impeachment purposes. See Commonwealth v. Young, 432 Pa.Super. 318, 638 A.2d 244 (1994) (<HOLDING>). We note however, that in Young, the witness
holding that a witnesss prior inconsistent statement to an officer could be used to impeach her holding that summary convictions of crimes involving dishonesty could be used to impeach the credibility of a witness holding that conviction on appeal is not admissible to impeach witnesss credibility holding that a conviction for an offense involving dishonesty or false statement may be used to impeach the credibility of a defendant who chooses to testify holding that the need to impeach credibility correspondingly increases as the importance of the witness credibility and testimony escalates