United States v. Orlando Figueroa

How courts have described this case

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• finding no abuse of discretion where “defendants do not point to any evidence that any juror’s ability to understand English was deficient”
• finding no abuse of discretion where defendants had received government tapes two months before trial
• finding no abuse of discretion where defendants had received government tapes two months before trial
• explaining how Rule 609 is “primarily concerned with potential unfairness to a defendant when his prior convictions are offered”
• “While the trial judge held defendants to a tough schedule, in the absence of a showing of unfair prejudice to defendants, there was no manifest abuse of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).