· 5/11/1981
United States v. Robert Emerson Ezzell
Citations
- 644 F.2d 1304
- 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 13446
- 8 Fed. R. Serv. 132
How courts have described this case
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- holding that where evidence of guilt is overwhelming, M.R.E. 404(b) error was harmless
- Rule 404(b) incorrectly invoked where points of similarity between bank robberies were ones so common to most bank robberies as to be “entirely unhelpful”
- conduct of two robberies was not sufficiently “peculiar, unique or bizarre”
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Judges: Kennedy, Boochever, Reed
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