United States v. Tyrone Smith, United States of America v. Anthony E. Gartrell

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• finding that armed robbery is not a crime of dishonesty or false statement
• explaining that Federal Rule of Evidence 609(a)(2), which is identical to Utah's rule 609(a)(2), provides for the automatic admission of \crimes characterized by an element of deceit or deliberate interference with a court's ascertainment of truth\
• explaining defendant was likely dissuaded from testifying primarily by the trial court’s refusal to exclude evidence of his prior conviction
• “This modest variation in language is not purely semantic;” placing the burden on the proponent of the evidence was “an important change in the law”
• armed robbery not a crime involving dishonesty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).