United States v. Richard Edison Boyd, A/K/A Jake Boyd

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence is not unfairly prejudicial if it does not “involve conduct any more sensational or disturbing than the crimes with which [the defendant] was charged”
• holding no unfair prejudice when prior act is no more sensational or disturbing than evidence admitted directly supporting crimes with which defendant was charged
• holding district court did not abuse its discretion under Rule 403 when the challenged Rule 404(b) evidence was “far less prejudicial” than the evidence directly bearing on defendant’s culpability for the charged offenses
• evidence of alleged conspirators’ other joint criminal activity was “clearly probative of the close nature of their relationship”
• “[I]n one sense all incriminating evidence is inherently prejudicial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).