Opinion ID: 499727
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: evidence of uncharged crimes

Text: 11 Appellant claims that he was unfairly prejudiced by the admission into evidence of details concerning the brutal beatings administered to the two independentistas and the actual killings which followed. 4 The same point was raised--and rejected--in the earlier appeal. Moreno Morales, 815 F.2d at 739-40. We find that discussion to be dispositive of the issue. 5 We add only that, since Moreno Morales was decided, we have reaffirmed that details of illegal acts, including murder, have been allowed, in the district court's discretion, to show the chain of events forming the context. Real v. Hogan, 828 F.2d 58, 61 (1st Cir.1987). What we said in Real is equally apropos here: A trial is a search for truth and cannot sensibly take place in a vacuum. Id. at 62. 12 Given appellant's approach to this reason of appeal, stare decisis applies. The decision to allow the evidence was within the district court's discretion.