Legal Opinion
Franklyn Weaver v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 26, 1969No. 22172PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:
The only issue presented by this appeal from a robbery conviction derives from Luck v. United States, 121 U.S.App.D.C. 151, 348 F.2d 763 (1965). In that case we construed the statute in this jurisdiction relating to impeachment of the credibility of witnesses in judicial proceedings by means of prior criminal conviction (14 D.C.Code § 305 (1967)) to be less than automatic in its operation, and to accord the trial court latitude to deny or limit such impeachment in a particular case if it thought the integrity of the truth seeking process would be correspondingly…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Spencer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Delli Paoli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Morris W. Gordon v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BighumSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
- State v. JonesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1978
- United States v. Tyrone Smith, United States of America v. Anthony E. GartrellCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1976
- William J. Gass v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
- Bustillos v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1971
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