Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously -convicted felon, as is routine ly done under this Court's decision in Old Chief v. United States , 519 U.S. 172 (1997) , in fact introduces evidence that is far more prejudicial than probative and should be excluded under Federal Rule of Evidence 403, particularly given that less prejudicial but equally probative evidentiary alternatives are avai lable to prove that the defendant is a person prohibited from possessing firearm s under federal law ?

Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously-convicted felon should be excluded under Federal Rule of Evidence 403