Lacuas LLC v. Torres Colon, Angela

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• holding that companion’s prior bad act of “[hjiding a gun under a car seat is not a distinctive crime, and cannot be used to satisfy the ‘identity’ exception to Rule 404(b)”
• holding that companion’s prior bad act of “[h]iding a gun under a car seat is not a distinctive crime, and cannot be used to satisfy the ‘identity’ exception to Rule 404(b)”
• finding probable cause to search a car based on “concealing movements in the automobile’s front seat” and discovery of a shoulder holster
• no plain error where jury was instructed that it was the sole judge of the facts
• character not essential element of defendant's defense that he did not know of the presence of a gun
• “[I]f the characteristics of both the prior offense and the charged offense are not in any way distinctive, but are similar to numerous other crimes committed by persons other than the defendant, no inference of identity can arise.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).