JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
The principal issue on this appeal is whether a prosecutor may seek to impeach a defendant's credibility by asking the defendant on cross-examination about prior misconduct that the prosecutor knows has been the subject of a trial and an acquittal. The issue arises on an appeal by Philip B. Schwab from a judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Eugene H. Nickerson, Judge), convicting him, upon a jury verdict...
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