Morris W. Gordon v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that under the Luck standard, conviction evidence would “ordinarily be admissible unless this burden is met”
• describing “the inevitable pressure on lay jurors to believe that ‘if [the defendant] did it before he probably did so this time’ ”
• describing \the inevitable pressure on lay jurors to believe that `if [the defendant] did it before he probably did so this time'\
• “[T]here is inevitable pressure on lay jurors to believe that if he did it before he probably did it this time.”
• “One important consideration is what the effect will be if the defendant does not testify out of fear of being prejudiced because of impeachment by prior convictions.”
• \convictions which are for the same crime should be admitted sparingly\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).