Court Opinion

ID: 9490911
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:58:23.98031+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:54:23.534488
License: Public Domain

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the judgment and in all but Part II A of this court’s opinion. Part II A concludes that in requiring the defendant to read the jury the text of the Ohio court of appeals decision, the district court violated Rule 608(b), Fed.R.Evid. This may be so, but I would not reach the applicability of Rule 608(b). It seems to me that the evidence ought to have been excluded under Rule 403 in any event.1 See Nipper v. Snipes, 7 F.3d 415, 418 (4th Cir.1993).