United States v. Alan Shackleford

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• finding that defendant charged with general intent crime did not place his intent at issue by maintaining throughout trial that he never committed the acts alleged
• evidence of other acts not admissible to show defendant’s bad character, but may be in troduced “if it is directed toward something other than propensity”
• evidence of other acts may be admissible during government’s case-in-chief where defendant raises issue of intent
• evidence of prior crimes inadmissible to prove intent because intent was not in issue
• evidence which established that an illegal weapon was found in defendant’s bedroom closet was sufficient to support the finding that the defendant knowingly possessed an illegal weapon in violation of the National Firearms Act
• intent must be more than a formal issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).