United States v. Alayeto

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that Rule 403 helps to exclude evidence that might “distract[]” jurors from “the central issue in the case,” especially when that evidence has “minimal relevance”
• explaining that Rule 403 permits a court to exclude evidence that distracts from “the central is- sue in the case,” especially when that evidence has “minimal relevance”
• affirming trial court’s exclusion of instances in which accomplice convinced other drug mules to transport drugs when “contested evidence may have demonstrated [accomplice’s] intent to deliver the narcotics, but it would not have been significantly probative of [defendant’s intent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).