Opinion ID: 71274
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Silver's testimony

Text: Tokars claims that the district court erred in allowing Murray Silver to testify about Tokars's request that Silver solicit drug dealers for money laundering services and in admitting articles about money laundering authored by Tokars as extrinsic act evidence admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b). In denying the defense motion in limine, the district court stated that the articles would be relevant to show specific intent. After Silver's direct examination, the district court gave a limiting instruction at the request of defense counsel. Extrinsic act evidence is admissible if the evidence is relevant to an issue other than the defendant's character and if the probative value of the evidence is not substantially outweighed by its potential to prejudice the defendant. See United States v. Costa, 947 F.2d 919, 925 (11th Cir.1991), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 946, 112 S.Ct. 2289, 119 L.Ed.2d 213, and cert. denied, 506 U.S. 929, 113 S.Ct. 360, 121 L.Ed.2d 272 (1992). In addition, the district court must provide a limiting instruction, as was the case here. See id. Although Tokars claims that he never denied know how, he never entered into any written stipulation removing intent as an issue for the jury. See id. (Because the defendants did not affirmatively take the issue of intent out of contention by stipulating that they possessed the requisite intent, the district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of unindicted extrinsic bad acts.). Based on our review of the record, we conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion because the evidence regarding money laundering was relevant to the issue of intent and its probative value was not substantially outweighed by the risk of undue prejudice to the defendant.