United States v. Dorothea Daraio

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that although the government presented extensive evidence of defendant’s uncharged wrongdoing, “the district court’s instructions ensured that the jury would convict [the defendant], if at all, for a crime based on conduct charged in the indictment”
• concluding that although the government presented extensive evidence of defendant’s uncharged wrongdoing, “the district court’s instructions ensured that the jury would convict [the defendant], if at all, for a crime based on conduct charged in the indictment”
• finding that the probative value of the evidence of past failures to pay taxes outweighed the potential for prejudice even though the past conduct was the same as the charged conduct
• admitting evidence of prior tax history spanning 14 years was not an abuse of discretion
• indicating use of abuse of discretion standard of review of district court’s Rule 404(b) ruling
• considering whether, notwithstanding the possibility that the evidence presented by the Government had constructively amended the indictment, the jury instructions “[o]verall ... properly focused the jury” on the defendant’s “conduct as charged in the indictment”

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