Kyles v. Klein

How later courts describe this case

• approving the Murray decision on this issue and noting such a rule "encourage[s] counsel to make the motion early in order to obtain pretrial rulings"
• to preserve issue on appeal, defendant must establish that he would take stand in absence of challenged ruling
• "In Shorter ... [w]e held that by telling [the jury] about his former convictions [defendant] waived his opportunity to object to them and thus did not preserve the issue for appeal.”
• prior convictions, several opinions discussing question