United States v. Gilberto Edwards, Also Known as Lorenzo, Also Known as Logan, Also Known as Darnell Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• noting that evidence of uncharged acts is admissible when there is a “tangible connection between the acts”
• requiring “similarity or tangible connection between” the other acts evidence and the case at hand
• urging the jury to “use [their] common sense . . . . The common sense that tells you that when a story doesn’t ring true, it probably isn’t true.”
• “[B]ecause defendant had put his credibility in issue [by testifying at trial], the prosecutor’s arguments portraying him as a liar were not improper.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).