48 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 773, 11 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. C 929 United States of America v. Clifford Kelly Pope, Cross-Appellee

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• concluding that two burglaries committed on the same evening in separate buildings 200 yards apart were sufficiently distinct under the ACCA
• concluding that convictions for burglarizing two offices on the same night were separate criminal episodes because “the defendant could have chosen to desist after completing his first crime” but, instead, “made a conscious decision” to commit a second burglary
• noting that Rule 609(b) “creates a strong presumption against the use . . . of stale convictions” to impeach a witness
• “Distinctions in time and place are usually sufficient to separate criminal episodes from one another.”
• “Mere temporal proximity is ordinarily insufficient to merge multiple offenses into a single criminal episode”
• “Mere temporal proximity is ordinarily insufficient to merge multiple offenses into a single criminal episode.”

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