U.S. v. BRACKEEN

No. 91-50036.

969 F.2d 827 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert Nello BRACKEEN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 15, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald C. Salseda, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

David R. Garcia, Asst. U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: WALLACE, Chief Judge, TANG, SCHROEDER, FLETCHER, FARRIS, PREGERSON, ALARCON, REINHARDT, BRUNETTI, NELSON, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.


Submitted En Banc June 8, 1992*.

PER CURIAM:

This court has convened en banc to determine whether bank robbery necessarily involves "dishonesty," as that term is used in Federal Rule of Evidence 609(a)(2). The question arises in the context of whether a witness can be impeached by evidence of prior convictions. Faced with intra-circuit precedents which provide irreconcilably conflicting answers to the question, the original panel...

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