United States v. Willie E. Lloyd

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the second element requires that the act be close enough in time to the crime charged to be relevant to the matter at issue
• recognizing that an informant’s first- hand observations support a finding of reliability
• noting that Cl pointed suspect’s apartment out to officer, and officer confirmed Cl’s description of the residence
• stating that “[t]he prior acts need not be duplicates of the one for which the defendant is now being tried”
• affirming admission of evidence of gang affiliation, assassination attempts made on defendant’s life, and his use of armed guards to show motive in felon-in-possession prosecution
• upholding admission of evidence showing gang affiliation where it was used, in part, to explain the defendant’s motivation for possessing a firearm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).