United States v. Verl Hadley

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• holding that expert testimony about the “general behavior characteristics that may be exhibited in children who have been sexually abused” was admissible because it “assisted the trier of fact in understanding the evidence” (cleaned up
• explaining that the district judge has \wide discretion\ when determining whether evidence is admissible under HRE Rule 404(b)
• admitting evidence of molestation of young boy ten years before charged molestation of different boy
• admitting evidence of prior acts of molestation in which there was a ten year gap between acts of molestation as not too remote
• explaining that the trial court “properly instructed jurors that they could use the prior bad acts evidence to establish intent and motive only if they first found that the other evidence established beyond a reasonable doubt that Hadley committed the acts charged”
• upholding admission of a “regular pattern” of similar conduct over a ten-year period, despite a ten-year hiatus between the most recent prior conduct and the charged conduct

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