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Eighth Circuit· 3/9/2006

United States v. Brion Dodd Johnson

Citations

  • 439 F.3d 884
  • 69 Fed. R. Serv. 719
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 5880
  • 2006 WL 560113

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  • concluding that sexually explicit stories written by defendant should have been excluded from trial for possession of child pornography because stories improperly suggested his propensity to possess child pornography
  • “Propensity evidence, whether of a person’s general character or examples of specific bad acts, is ordinarily excluded because of the likelihood the jury may misuse it.”
  • “Propensity evidence, whether of a person’s general character or examples of specific bad acts, is ordinarily excluded because of the likelihood the jury may misuse it.”
  • “Rule 404(b) is . . . ‘a rule of inclusion rather than exclusion and admits evidence of other crimes or acts relevant to any issue in the trial, unless it tends to prove only criminal disposition.’” (quoting United States v. Simon, 767 F.2d 524, 526 (8th Cir. 1985))

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Judges: Bye, Beam, Smith

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