United States v. Allen Clifton Benton

How courts have described this case

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• upholding admissibility of prior murders where relevant to show defendant’s motive for charged murder
• enhancement of sentence based upon hearsay reports accusing defendant of several uncharged homicides not violative of due process
• prejudicial effect of evidence of other crimes or acts decreased by cautionary instructions to jury and elimination of unnecessary details
• “The prejudicial effect of the evidence may be reduced by the’ manner in which the evidence is introduced, e.g., elimination of inflammatory or unnecessary details from the presentation, and by cautionary instructions from the trial judge.”
• “motive ... may be evidence of identity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).