United States v. Dennis Burke

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• allowing transcripts of tapes to be part of the record on appeal as the tapes themselves 3 “were admitted and played to the jury”; “[a]ppellate judges are entitled to see all the materials that 4 the district judge considered”
• “Evidence that the defendant frequently performs lawful or laudable acts does not often establish that some subsequent act is also lawful or laudable.”
• “[e]vidence that the defendant frequently performs lawful or laudable acts does not often establish that some subsequent act is also lawful or laudable”
• “Although the pattern instructions are suggestive rather than absolutely binding, a decision of this court is authoritative.”
• Mandujano “did not conclusively determine when witnesses should be given Miranda warnings”
• summarizes treatment of character evidence in federal courts

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