United States v. Faye Margaret Crawford A/K/A Faye Margaret Powell

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• holding that the burden of proof for admitting prior convictions of defendant in criminal case under Rule 609(a) “is clearly on the prosecution rather than the defendant”
• holding in the Rule 609 context, that a conviction for shoplifting “may or may not be probative of a lack of veracity, depending on the nature and circumstances of the crime”
• “prime” among Rule 609 considerations “is whether the crime, by its nature, is probative of a lack of veracity” (cleaned up

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