Reavis v. United States

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• not plain error to admit in-court identification by witness who had failed to identify defendant from photo arrays and line-up
• evidence is probative when it tends “to make the existence or nonexistence of a [material] fact more or less probable than would be the case without that evidence”
• “Even if the proffered evidence is infirm the trial judge does not err by admitting it in the absence of a timely objection to its admissibility unless to admit it is plain error.”
• “Relevance, and the concepts it embodies, determines initially whether a proffered (continued…

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