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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 721 Filed 07/12/22 Page3of9 The Honorable Alison J. Nathan December 14, 2021 a") fat) oe a ww This Court should preclude the government from cross-examining Mr. yy on the top fl Pe ] This line of examination is irrelevant is inadmissible under Rules 608 and 403. Rule 608 states: (a) Reputation or Opinion Evidence. A witness’s credibility may be attacked or supported by testimony about the witness’s reputation for having a character for truthfulness or untruthfulness, or by testimony in the form of an opinion about that character. But evidence of truthful character is admissible only after the witness’s character for truthfulness has been attacked. (b) Specific Instances of Conduct. Except for a criminal conviction under Rule 609, extrinsic evidence is not admissible to prove specific instances of a witness’s conduct in order to attack or support the witness’s character for truthfulness. But the court may, on cross-examination, allow them to be inquired into if they are probative of the character for truthfulness or untruthfulness of: (1) the witness; or DOJ-OGR-00011347