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063520P.pdf   09/06/2007  United States  v.  Gregory A. Sparkman
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3520
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau   
   Girardeau
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd,
   Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. District court did not err in denying
   motion to continue trial after defendant was unable to obtain the presence
   of a federal prisoner as a result of his own delay in requesting compulsory
   process for the witness; evidentiary challenges rejected; limiting
   instruction on "other acts" evidence was adequate to inform the jury of
   the permissible use of evidence of prior bad acts; district court was not
   obligated to give a specific instruction telling the jury that it must find by
   a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant committed the other
   acts.