United States v. Janet Elaine Scisney

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• finding harmless error where — among other factors — the erroneously admitted conviction was only mentioned briefly during cross-examination
• “[Cjrimes involving ‘dishonesty or false statements’ implicate ‘moral turpitude,’ [but] ‘moral turpitude’ [does not] always involvef] ‘dishonesty or false statements’ as that term was intended by Congress.”
• admission of a misdemeanor shoplifting conviction was harmless error because an admissible, more serious conviction “[ljogically . . . would be the conviction ... the jury would weigh more heavily in making a credibility determination”
• admission of evidence of the defendant's prior shoplifting conviction was harmless error where the jury was aware of the defendant's \prior brushes with the law\ and the government's case was a \strong one\

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