Legal Opinion
United States v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 5, 2010No. 08-3018PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court by Circuit Judge ROGERS.
ROGERS, Circuit Judge:
Edward Brown was convicted by a jury of bank fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1344, and passing fictitious financial instruments, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 514, for trying to deposit two fictitious “bills of exchange” in his account at a federal credit union. He appeals on the ground the district court abused its discretion by permitting introduction of other crimes evidence that was unnecessary to the government’s proof of the charged offenses and unfairly caused the jury to focus on his character and propensity to…
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