United States First Circuit

Conviction for battery in the collection of a gambling debt is affirmed over a claim that the district court erred in granting of the government's motion to exclude evidence of the victim's prior conviction where: 1) the victim's prior conviction was more than ten years old; 2) appellant made no showing of the substantive value of evidence of the conviction; and 3) the prior conviction was for car theft and did not go to the veracity of the victim's testimony.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/19/2008
• Published 09/19/2008

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA, Circuit Judge, and SCHWARZER, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christie M. Charles, with whom George F. Gormley, P.C. was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald C. Lockhart, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Robert Clark Corrente, United States Attorney, and Sandra R. Beckner, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.