United States v. Leroy Hayes

How courts have described this case

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• finding that conviction for importation of cocaine is a “a type of crime — smuggling—that ranks relatively high on the scale of veracity-related crimes”
• finding that drug smuggling “has more probative value on credibility than, for example, a conviction for mere narcotics possession ....”
• stating that Court has held that convictions have more probative value as they become more recent
• explaining that “crimes of stealth, such as burglary” and “petit larceny do not come within” Rule 609(a)(2)
• stating that Congress limited the crimes covered by Rule 609(a)(2) because of the Rule's inflexibility and noting that a conviction that \involved nothing more than stealth\ could not be introduced automatically under Rule 609(a)(2)
• holding temporal proximity of a prior conviction will favor admission if the past crime is recent and if witness has demonstrated a propensity for running afoul of the law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).