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Evidence keyed to Fisher
Huddleston v. U.S
Facts
The defendant was charged with the knowing possession of stolen videocassette tapes in violation of federal law. Evidence at trial showed that defendant had a trailer containing over 32,000 blank tapes and that he was trying to sell them. The defendant insisted that the tapes had been provided to him by another man and that he had no idea that they were stolen. The District Court allowed the plaintiff to introduce as evidence of similar acts under F.R.E. Rule 404(b), the defendant’s involvement in a series of sales of allegedly stolen televisions and appliances from the same suspicious store as the tapes were stolen. The jury convicted the defendant and the Court of Appeals affirmed. The defendant asserts that introduction of the similar acts evidence was in error.
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