United States v. Jamie Barrera Lopez, Eugenio Ozuna Ramirez, Jr., Eliseo De La Garza, and Robert San-Martin Delgado

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• noting that evidence that a defendant fled the scene “is relevant and admissible, and the jury could take into account [a defendant’s] flight”
• noting that Rule 608 does not apply to impeachment by contradiction
• upholding the use of a seventeen year-old conviction to impeach by contradiction because it passed Rule 403 bal ancing
• allowing the government to produce a record of the defendant’s prior conviction for possession of marijuana in order to impeach the defendant’s testimony that he had never seen the drug in person
• “[P]ossession of marihuana is not an act that indicates a witness’s character for truthfulness or untruthfulness.”
• material extrinsic evidence subject to exclusion if prejudice outweighs probativity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).