U.S. v. Mejia-Uribe, No. 94-4051 (8th Cir.) (75 F.3d 395) (January 31, 1996) (Judge John R. Gibson)
After the defendant was convicted, he appealed principally on the grounds that the lower court had violated
Rule 404(b) when it permitted the introduction into evidence of his seventeen-year old 1978 conviction. The
Court agrees that the 1978 conviction "was more prejudicial than probative" and that the court had erred …
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