PEOPLE OF THE TERRITORY OF GUAM, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John Benjamin SHYMANOVITZ, Defendant-Appellant

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• concluding that admitting contents of gay magazines “served only the highly improper and offensive purpose of advising the jury that [defendant] was probably homosexual”
• holding trial court abused its discretion in admitting magazine articles as prior-bad-acts evidence
• holding trial court abused its discretion in admitting magazine articles as prior-bad-acts evidence
• finding that pornographic magazines found in the apartment of a defendant accused of sexual contact with minors was inadmissible to show propensity, lamenting that the case against an individual could be made stronger because of his book collection
• finding that pornographic magazines found in the apartment of a defendant accused of sexual contact with minors was inadmissible to show propensity, lamenting that the case against an individual could be made stronger because of his book collection
• referring to the prosecutor’s “untempered and provocative references” to the evidence

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