Deavon Guilford v. The State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the military judge must consider the “possible distraction of the fact-finder that might result from admission of the testimony.”
• finding it evident that a “distracting mini-trial” occurred where trial counsel’s opening statement began with reference to the M.R.E. 413 prior act and his closing statement emphasized the prior act
• reversing a Mil. R. Evid. 413 ruling admitting propensity sexual acts committed by 6 JESKO—ARMY 20160439 appellant at the age of thirteen
• noting, in the course of a Wright analysis, that “[t]he length of time between the events alone is generally not enough to make a determination as to the admissibility of the testimony”
• evaluating the strength of the government case, the strength of the defense case, and the materiality and quality of the evidence in question, in determining whether any error substantially influenced the members’ decision
• evidence that as teenager defendant molested a young boy had “some tendency to make it more probable” that he committed the charged “nonconsensual act against a vulnerable person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).