U.S. v. Ohler, No. 98-50282 (9th Cir.) (169 F.3d 1200) (March 9, 1999) (Judge Melvin Brunetti)
In this case the defendant relied upon the holding in U.S. v. Fisher, 106 F.3d 622 (5th Cir. 1997) for the proposition that, by raising her prior convictions during direct examination (as expressly permitted by a 1990 amendment to Fed.R.Evid. 609) in order to "remove the sting" of having the ...
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