United States v. Terrell Davis

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant’s prior conviction for cocaine possession not admissible to show knowledge in a trial for cocaine distribution because “[p]ossession and distribution are different in ways that matter”
• holding that defendant’s prior conviction for cocaine possession not admissible to show knowledge in a trial for cocaine distribution because “[possession and distribution are different in ways that matter”
• explaining that relevance can be an “insurmountable” barrier to the admission of evidence challenged under Rule 404(b)
• explaining that prior-acts evidence must be offered for a proper purpose under Rule 404(b)(2); relevant to that purpose; sufficiently probative under the Rule 403 balancing test; and accompanied by a limiting instruction, if requested
• discussing proponent’s burden to identify a proper purpose and explain how the proffered evidence is relevant to that purpose
• observing that, “[ujncontr-oversial at the time of adoption, Rule 404(b) has become the most cited evidentiary rule on appeal” (citing Thomas J. Reed, Admitting the Accused’s Criminal History: The Trouble with Rule 404(b), 78 Temp. L.rev. 201, 211 (2005)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).