United States v. Joseph Lee Seymour

How courts have described this case

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• applying Fed. R. Evid. 413 to admit other acts evidence in case where defendant was accused of child molestation
• affirming sentence based in part on the defendant’s “lengthy criminal record”
• FRE 413 and 414 “create an exception to the general ban on propensity evidence contained in Rule 404(b)”
• “In reviewing challenges to evidence based on Rule 403, we must give the evidence its maximum reasonable probative force and its minimum reasonable prejudicial value.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “If a defendant does not state ‘the specific ground’ for his evidentiary objection, and that ground ‘is not apparent from the context,’ we review a newly raised objection under the plain-error standard.”
• analyzing Federal Rule of Evidence 413

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