federal Rule of Evidence 404 allows other crimes, wrongs, or acts to be admitted in a criminal
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federal Rule of Evidence 404 allows "other crimes, wrongs, or acts" to be admitted in a criminal trial for other purposes such as motive, opportunity, intent , preparation, plan, knowledge, identity or absence of mistake or accident. this rule allows testimony about acts or crimes for which a defendant was never charged or convicted. Consider the following (after reading the rule):
1) does this rule give a prosecutor too much leeway to introduce prejudicial evidence?
2) READ RULE 403 and discuss whether 404 is consistent with the protections in 403.
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