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U.S. v. Dunson, No. 97-1163 (10th Cir.) (142 F.3d 1213) (April 24, 1998) (Judge John C. Porfilio)

Case held that for purposes of Rule 609(a)(2), shoplifting was not automatically a crime involving "dishonesty or false statement" within meaning of rule governing admission of evidence of prior misdemeanor convictions.

Here, the Court affirmed the district court's decision to bar evidence of an informant's prior shoplifting conviction, which the ...

 

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