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· 5/4/1987

United States v. Earl Hillsberg

Citations

  • 812 F.2d 328

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • 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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