United States v. Greg L. Murray

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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).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Seventh Circuit· 2013-02-28· cited 44×
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  Seventh Circuit· 2012-03-09· cited 23×
• People v. Turner
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-04-19· cited 19×
• State v. Donald
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2013-12-09· cited 16×
• United States v. Samantha Johnson
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-09-06· cited 15×
• United States v. Alayeto
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-12-17· cited 14×
• United States v. James
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-09-02· cited 13×
• United States v. Bradley Cox
  Seventh Circuit· 2022-11-23· cited 7×
• State Of Washington v. Harold Donald
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2013-12-09
• United States v. James, Calvin
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-09-02
• United States v. Eubanks
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-03-20

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Richard Stevens
  Third Circuit· 1991-06-12· cited 257×
• Sims v. Singletary
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-09-22· cited 236×
• United States v. Stefan Irving
  Second Circuit· 2006-06-23· cited 190×
• United States v. John J. Leahy, William E. Stratton, James M. Duff, and Terrence Dolan
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-10-04· cited 147×
• United States v. Yagih Aboumoussallem
  Second Circuit· 1984-01-06· cited 139×
• United States v. Robin Rochelle Lucas
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-02-12· cited 90×
• Joseph Daniel Holt v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1965-03-12· cited 81×
• United States v. William Eugene Robinson
  Second Circuit· 1976-10-29· cited 68×
• United States v. Edward Seals and Earnest D'Marco Johnson
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-08-16· cited 62×
• United States v. George Michael McClure
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-02-07· cited 57×
• United States v. Richard Williams, A/K/A Malik Nash Bey
  Third Circuit· 2006-08-18· cited 40×
• Wesley Sellers v. W. J. Estelle, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-07-27· cited 39×