Opinion ID: 195901
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Implicit Bad Character Evidence

Text: 28 We also reject Jackman's argument that the opinion testimony should have been excluded under Rule 403 because it constituted implicit bad character evidence. Because the witnesses knew Jackman well and testified that they had no doubt that the man in the Revere photograph was Jackman, so this argument goes, the jury would conclude that these witnesses must have had other reasons to believe that Jackman was the kind of man who would commit a bank robbery. The witnesses, however, never testified about or alluded to any such reasons. Indeed, Stetson and Hurlock testified about Jackman's involvement in Little League and other youth sports. If their testimony did create any unfair prejudice of this type, it is certainly not clear that it substantially outweighed the testimony's probative value such that the district court abused its discretion in admitting it.