P. v. Faumui
When victim Allen Allison resisted an attempted home invasion robbery, he was shot twice; he survived for eight months, paralyzed from the waist down and on dialysis, until he died as a result of complications of his injuries. Defendant Vavao Polo Faumui was neither the mastermind behind the attempted robbery nor the actual shooter. Nevertheless, he self admittedly conspired to commit the robbery. Moreover, he fought with the victim, and there was evidence (albeit disputed) that, when defendant realized that he was losing the fight, he yelled to one of his cohorts, [S]hoot him.
Defendants sole appellate contention is that the trial court erred by refusing to sanitize his prior convictions i.e., it allowed the prosecution to introduce, for the purpose of impeaching defendant when he testified, evidence that defendant not only had prior felony convictions in general, but convictions for robbery and assault in particular. Court will hold that this was not error. Accordingly, Court will affirm.
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