United States v. Arthur Eugene Shepherd

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• finding that “instructions” were not inadmissible hearsay, explaining: “An order or instruction is, by its nature, neither true nor false and thus cannot be offered for its truth.”
• noting that “[ejvidence of prior criminal acts is almost always prejudicial to the defendant” and concluding that “evidence of other crimes was prejudicial and fraught with the possibility of diverting the jury’s attention from the crucial issue”
• “An order or instruction is, by its nature, neither true nor false and thus cannot be offered for its truth.”
• order or instructions admissible because they were offered to show that they occurred rather than to prove the truth of something asserted

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