· 5/4/1987
United States v. Earl Hillsberg
Citations
- 812 F.2d 328
How courts have described this case
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- affirming the exclusion of evidence related to the defendant’s mental state under Fed. R. Evid. 403 on the ground that it “could have improperly brought the insanity issue in through the back door”
- evidence that earlier in the day the defendant fired his gun into the air \was germane in determining his state of mind at the time of the fatal shooting\
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Judges: Posner, Easterbrook, Eschbach
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