Dowling v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1990-01-17

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Justice White delivered the opinion of the Court. At petitioner’s trial for various offenses arising out of a bank robbery, testimony was admitted under Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence, relating to an alleged crime *344 that the defendant had previously been acquitted of committing. We conclude that neither the Double Jeopardy Clause nor t…

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