Opinion ID: 609579
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: admission of fraud conviction

Text: 11 Owen asserts that the district court erred in permitting Southwest to present evidence of her prior insurance fraud conviction. 3 She raised this objection in a motion in limine, asserting that the conviction was inadmissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 609(c)(1). 4 Rule 609(c)(1) provides that a prior conviction otherwise admissible under Rule 609 is not admissible if: 12 the conviction has been the subject of a pardon, annulment, certificate of rehabilitation, or other equivalent procedure based on a finding of the rehabilitation of the person convicted, and that person has not been convicted of a subsequent crime which was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year.... 13 Owen received an early discharge from her sentence of probation that she was serving for her prior fraud conviction. See Doc. 137, ex. B. She contends that this early discharge is an equivalent procedure based on a finding of the rehabilitation of the person convicted, and that the conviction was therefore inadmissible under Rule 609(c). 14 Once again, Owen's failure to file a transcript precludes review of the trial court's evidentiary rulings. United States v. Vasquez, 985 F.2d 491, 495 (10th Cir.1993) (Challenges to the admission of evidence will not be considered by the Court of Appeals in the absence of a record containing those portions of the transcript on which the appellant relies.). We therefore are unable to review her challenge to the admission of her prior insurance fraud conviction.