United States v. Thomas Anthony Avarello, Jerry Henry Wood, Carmel Cosmo Bowers, James Eugene Avery and Bobby Joe Chapman

How courts have described this case

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• holding, in the context of criminal prosecution, that “the danger inherent in evidence of prior convictions is that juries may convict a defendant because he is a ‘bad man’ rather than because evidence of the crime of which he is charged has proved him guilty”
• “the tenor of the conversations themselves suggests that the two men dealt with each other with regularity”
• surveys state of the law; adopts regular contacts rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).