United States v. Otoniel Maldonado Valencia

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• explaining that defendant “in effect opened the door for the government’s cross-examination by attempting to explain away or minimize his guilt”
• allowing cross-examination of the facts of a specific prior conviction in which the defendant previously attempted to minimize his guilt as to the prior conviction
• when the defendant minimizes his guilt in discussing a prior conviction on direct examination, the district court does not abuse its discretion in allowing a more extensive cross-examination into the facts underlying the conviction to impeach the defendant's credibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).