United States v. Pierre Dawson and Alphonso Ingram

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The government has moved for rehearing, complaining about the following passage in our opinion of September 28 and more particularly about the sentence in that passage that we have italicized:

In suppression hearings in two previous cases, involving other defendants, the trial judges had disbelieved testimony by three government agents who also testified for the prosecution in our case. Defense counsel in our case wanted to use those judges’ rulings to impeach the three witnesses’ testimony. The judge refused on the basis of Rule 608(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence,…