United States v. Morris Stanley Browne

How courts have described this case

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• trial courts have 19 discretion to issue advance evidentiary rulings but they are not required to do so
• “The government did not overemphasize [the defendant’s] prior convictions,” which favors admitting the evidence
• “[T]he district court gave the jury a limiting instruction, informing them that they should only consider [the defendant’s] prior conviction for impeachment purposes. In this context, we cannot say that the court abused its discretion in admitting such evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).