Hoosier Contractors, LLC v. Sean Gardner

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• holding that the defendant’s prior felon-in-possession conviction was not admissible under Rule 404(b) because “no reasonable jury could have concluded that the defendant possessed a firearm either unknowingly or mistakenly”
• concluding admission of a past arrest involving a loaded gun was not relevant to intent, knowledge, or absence of mistake
• reasoning that admission is not justified by corroboration of any non- propensity evidence, but must instead corroborate one of the other non-propensity purposes established under the rule
• explaining that non-constitutional error is harmless \unless it had a 'substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict' \ (quoting Kotteakos v. United States , 328 U.S. 750 , 776, 66 S.Ct. 1239 , 90 L.Ed. 1557 (1946) )
• court should not admit Rule 404(b) evidence to prove knowledge where the government’s other evidence has sufficiently established knowledge to preclude judgment of acquittal on that element

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