United States v. Greg L. Murray

How courts have described this case

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• discussing reverse 404(b) cases in which a third party’s pattern of criminal conduct was probative of the defendant’s criminal intent or participation
• describing a defendant’s attempt to use “‘other crimes’ of another person to try to shift the blame to that person”
• “Without insistence on more than mere ‘similarity,’ criminal trials may get out of hand, as defendants cast for other criminals *** on whom to pin their crime”
• Although “[c]oncern with the poisonous effect on the jury of propensity evidence is minimal” when a defendant attempts to employ reverse 404(b
• Although \[c]oncern with the poisonous effect on the jury of propensity evidence is minimal\ when a defendant attempts to employ reverse 404(b
• “Without insistence on more than mere ‘similarity,’ criminal trials may get out of hand, as defendants cast for other criminals—fish- ing in a vast sea—on whom to pin their crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).