STATE v. FLEMINO

No. A05-1384.

721 N.W.2d 326 (2006)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Lancintino Antwon FLEMINO, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

September 5, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike Hatch, Attorney General, and Susan Gaertner, Ramsey County Attorney, Patrick J. Swift, Assistant County Attorney, St. Paul, MN, for respondent.

John M. Stuart, State Public Defender, Davi E. Axelson, Assistant Public Defender, Minneapolis, MN, for appellant.

Considered and decided by ROSS, Presiding Judge; GORDON W. SHUMAKER, Judge; and WRIGHT, Judge.


OPINION

GORDON W. SHUMAKER, Judge.

Appellant challenges his first-degree aggravated-robbery conviction, arguing that the district court abused its discretion in ruling that he could be impeached with his prior convictions if he testified. He contends that the rationale that evidence of even crimes not bearing on credibility allows the jury to see the "whole person" should be abandoned. We affirm.

FACTS

The state charged appellant Lancintino...

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