Legal Opinion
Old Chief v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 7, 1997No. 95-6556PublishedCited by 2,470 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
Subject to certain limitations, 18 U. S. C. § 922(g)(1) prohibits possession of a firearm by anyone with a prior felony conviction, which the Government can prove by introducing a record of judgment or similar evidence identifying the previous offense. Fearing prejudice if the jury learns the nature of the earlier crime, defendants sometimes seek to avoid such an informative disclosure by offering to concede the fact of the prior conviction. The issue here is whether a district court abuses its discretion if it spurns such an offer and admits the full record of a prior judgment, when the name…
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