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· 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

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • 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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