· 1/28/1987
United States v. Joseph Dougherty
Citations
- 810 F.2d 763
- 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 1382
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- prosecutor should have waited until direct examination before referring to the witness’ conviction rather than doing so in his opening statement, letting “his ‘zeal out run discretion’ ”
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Judges: Gibson, Fagg, Hanson
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