United States v. Brice

JUDGMENT

This case was considered on the record from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and on the briefs and arguments of the parties. It is

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the convictions of Appellant Jaron Brice be affirmed, and the record remanded for re-sentencing.

Brice’s Rule 404(b) argument is without merit. The evidence that Brice boasted of a prior murder went to the heart of the allegation that he used fear to induce his victims to prostitution. Such “intrinsic” evidence — “offered as direct evidence of a fact in issue, not as circumstantial evidence requiring an…