United States v. Robert Rollins

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• affirming admission of prejudicial “other crimes” evi- dence in trial on joined offenses “[b]ecause evidence of the [crimes] would have been mutually admissible if the counts had been tried separately”
• even when joinder under Rule 8 is proper, Rule 14 authorizes district court to grant severance when it appears that defendant will suffer prejudice by joinder of either offenses or de- fendants
• “[T]he risk of prejudice was sub- stantially reduced by limiting instructions given by the dis- trict court, which directed the jury to limit their consideration of this evidence to the issue of identity.”
• denial of motion to sever reviewed for abuse of discretion

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