United States v. Roosevelt Scarborough, Jr., United States of America v. Jose Dixon

MacKINNON, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Scarborough here questions the impeachment of one of his alibi witnesses through the use of a prior forgery conviction. 1 The witness secured her final release from probation approximately ten years and four months prior to the date the past conviction was used to impeach her testimony. At the time of the trial, there was no time limit, statutory or otherwise, on the use of prior convictions for such purposes and the admissibility of the evidence was within the sound discretion of the trial judge. Luck v. United States, 121 U.S.App.D.C. 151, 348 F.2d 763…