Grady E. Shows v. The M/v Red Eagle, Platform Coating Services, Inc., Lawrence-Allison & Associates Corporation and Chevron Usa, Inc.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a defendants’ verdict in a Jones Act suit. 1 The sole issue presented is the admission into evidence of the plaintiff’s conviction for armed robbery some ten years previous. Finding that the conviction carried little probative value but great prejudice, we reverse and remand for a new trial.

Grady Shows brought this suit against his employer, Platform Coating Services, Inc., as owner of a crew boat, The M/V Red Eagle, Lawrence-Allison & Associates Corporation, who controlled his work, and Chevron USA, Inc., the owner of the offshore…