Legal Opinion
Simpson v. Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 11, 2008No. 07-16228PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TROTT, Circuit Judge:
Gary Simpson filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that Sergeant Jeffrey Thomas, a corrections officer at the California Medical Facility (“CMF”) state prison in Vacaville, California, used excessive force after Simpson did not comply with Thomas’s orders. For impeachment purposes, the district court admitted evidence of Simpson’s three prior convictions more than ten years old pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 609(b), explaining that because his prior convictions were utilized pursuant to California’s Three Strikes Law to enhance his current sentence, “those…
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