United States v. Batton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding no error in district court’s admitting evidence of the defendant’s prior conviction for sexual abuse
• permitting testimony to “dispel any of the juror’s misconceptions” about sex offenders
• rejecting argument that Rules 413–415 do not apply on the ground that, regardless of whether the elements of the charged crime include “conduct contemplated by Rule 413,” the charged conduct meets “Rule 413’s internal definition of sexual assault”
• “the process whereby a sex offender earns the trust and confidence of a victim before engaging in a sexual act”
• “The methods sex offenders use are not necessarily common knowledge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).