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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.