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No. 95-2303
MICHAEL GILL,
Plaintiff, Appellant,
v.
Defendants, Appellees.
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Before
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with whom
Anne Skopp
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Plaintiff-appellant Michael
district
court
for
police
stop.
officer's
alleged
of
the
use
magistrate judge's
preclude
evidence
of
denial of
his
prior
his in
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Gill appeals
limine
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misdemeanor
motion to
convictions.
I.
I.
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Background
Background
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in
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A. The Incident
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After
to arrest him.
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1.
Under
Fed. R. Civ. P.
consented to the
conducting
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(1) Gill
(3) Thomas's police dog bit Gill's arm, (4) Gill threatened
to sue Thomas, and (5) Thomas sprayed Gill's face with mace.
events.
In
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2.
Gill
false
conceded that
report and
his prior
theft by
convictions for
deception were
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filing a
admissible under
Interrogatory #7 asked:
(Emphasis added).
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3.
Thomas
concealment
and requested
argued
that
Gill's
conviction
for
willful
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The
elicited.
could remember).
arrest.
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Q:
A:
For
had not.
1983 conviction for resisting arrest and his June 10, 1985,
custody.
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cross-examination.
II.
II.
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Analysis
Analysis
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Rules of Evidence.
such evidence.
She must
offered."4
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4.
to
unconditionally
precluded from
the proponent of
presenting
the evidence is
the evidence
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at
appeal and
F.3d at 262-63.
See
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F.2d 271, 274 (8th Cir. 1987) ("[M]otion in limine does not
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Inc., 761 F.2d 1146, 1150 (5th Cir. 1985) ("[A] party whose
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trial."
Griffin, 818 F.2d 97, 105 (1st Cir.) (holding that "to raise
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Without such a
United
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to
proffering
by a
have
preserved
the excluded
pretrial in
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the
evidence
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issue
n.12 (1st
the proponent of
limine ruling
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for
during the
appeal
will be
without
trial), cert.
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While this
error.
431 (9th Cir.) (same), cert. denied, 396 U.S. 970 (1969).
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it admissible.
object and thus did not preserve the issue for appeal.
Affirmed.
Affirmed
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