United States v. Gary Wayne Dickerson

51 F.3d 282 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gary Wayne DICKERSON, Defendant-Appellant. No. 94-10274. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 17, 1995. Decided March 29, 1995. Before: GOODWIN, CANBY and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 Former federal employee Gary Wayne Dickerson was charged under Title 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1920 with two counts of making a false statement on two disability compensation applications. Dickerson was convicted on both counts. Dickerson now claims that he is entitled to a judgment of acquittal because there was insufficient corroboration of his extrajudicial admissions to the federal investigator to sustain the convictions. Dickerson also claims that his convictions must be overturned because the district court violated Federal Rule of Evidence 608(b) by permitting the prosecution to impeach his testimony through extrinsic evidence. 3 We…