United States of America, Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Esteban Gonzalez and Alfredo Colon, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees

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• explaining that evidence is not “other act” evidence if it is “inextricably intertwined with the evidence regarding the charged offense”
• explaining that “the trial court may admit evidence that does not directly establish an element of the offense charged” (cleaned up)
• affirming the admission of background evidence that helped furnish an understanding for defendants’ acts
• approving the admission of evidence of uncharged conduct “to provide crucial background evidence that gave coherence to the basic sequence of events” surrounding the charged crime
• finding no Brady violation where counsel knew of the evidence at issue
• evidence need only tend to prove the Government’s case; evidence that adds context and dimension to the proof of the charges has that tendency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).