United States v. Pumpkin Seed

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• concluding “the stricter plain error standard” made “no difference” where the Court found “no error, plain or otherwise, in the [trial] court’s exclusion of [the proposed] evidence”
• concluding “the stricter plain error standard” made “no difference” where the Court found “no error, plain or otherwise, in the [trial] court’s exclusion of [the proposed] evidence”
• according much deference to the district court's balancing of the probative value and prejudicial impact of the evidence
• rejecting a Confrontation Clause challenge because exclusion of evidence under Rule 412 was not “arbitrary or disproportionate to the purposes that its exclusion was designed to serve”
• rooting this right in the Fifth and Sixth Amendments

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