United States v. Carl Veltmann and Christopher Veltmann

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• concluding where defendants were charged with crimes relating to a specific fire set at one defendant’s house, that Rule 404(b) covered statements made in response to questioning about “any previous fires on property owned by [that defendant]”
• admitting prior suicidal statements of a victim to show her state of mind, even though they were made several months before her suicide
• “The court must first assure that the [Rule 404 (b)] evidence is relevant to an issue other than defendant’s character[.]”
• where record did not indicate the district court conducted the proper review under Rule 404 (b), the appeals court conducted the analysis itself

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