Legal Opinion
United States v. Dennis Torres, A/K/A Danny Torres
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 8, 1992No. 91-3839PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Dennis Torres was charged with intentionally threatening a federal witness in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1513. At trial the government introduced evidence of prior acts of violence by Torres under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), alleging that this evidence, though unrelated to the charged crime, was introduced solely to establish Torres’s intent when making the threats. A jury found him guilty, and the court, departing upward from the Sentencing Guidelines, sentenced him to 85 months in prison. Torres now challenges the admission of the prior acts evidence introduced to…
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