United States v. Edwin A. Pagan

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

The principal issue presented on this appeal is appellant Edwin Pagan’s claim that his earlier Youth Corrections Act (YCA) conviction was improperly admitted into evidence at his trial. To resolve that question, we must determine whether a court’s unconditional discharge of appellant prior to the expiration of the maximum sentence imposed and the resulting set-aside of that conviction constitute a finding that he had been rehabilitated and, if so, whether such a finding should have barred admission of the YCA conviction at appellant’s trial.

FACTS

In the summer of 1981…