United States v. Varoudakis

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• finding that prior-bad-acts evidence ought to have been excluded under Rule 403 where \the government did not need the [prior-bad-acts] evidence to prove [the defendant's] knowledge\
• discussing that unfair prejudice must be avoided under Rule 403
• noting that \[t]he probative value of any particular bit of evidence is obviously affected by the scarcity or abundance of other evidence on the same point\ (quoting 22 Charles A. Wright & Kenneth A. Graham, Jr., Federal Practice and Procedure § 5250 (1978))
• “Doubts about the probative value of prior bad acts evidence are thus compounded when prosecutors have other evidence available [to prove the same point]....”
• first quoting Gilbert, 229 F.3d at 26; then quoting United States v. Moccia, 681 F.2d 61, 64 (1st Cir. 1982)

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