United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
897 F.3d 807 · 2018
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
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Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 2701 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on United States v. Olano · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Cotton · Alleyne v. United States · Molina-Martinez v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“(b) Crimes, Wrongs, or Other Acts. (1) Prohibited Uses. Evidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not admissible to prove a person's character in order to show that on a particular occasion the person acted in accordance with the character. (2) Permitted Uses; .... This evidence may be admissible for another purpose, such as proving motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, absence of mistake, or lack of accident....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“though the Supreme Court's Carpenter decision indicates a potential Fourth Amendment problem with the cell-site data used here, [Adkinson] cannot raise this argument now, after failing to raise it in the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“through a chain of reasoning that does not rely on the forbidden inference that the person has a certain character and acted in accordance with that character on the occasion charged in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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