United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for assaulting a prison guard is reversed, where the District Court erred in admitting evidence of Defendant's unrelated bank fraud conviction, where the evidence was not admissible under Fed. R. Evid. 608, because that rule does not permit the admission of the underlying facts of a prior conviction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/02/2009
• Decided 05/07/2009
• Published 05/07/2009

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  HARRY PREGERSON, SUSAN P. GRABER, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth A. Newman, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant., David P. Kowal and Benjamin R. Barron, Assistant United States Attorneys, Criminal Division, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.