Opinion ID: 755376
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Admissibility of Evidence Regarding Disposal of Money

Text: 35 Burrous also challenges the district court's admission of evidence that he tossed a box containing $128 in cash from the window of his apartment while law enforcement personnel were in the process of arresting him. 36 A decision by a trial court regarding the relevance of proffered evidence will be upheld unless shown to be an abuse of discretion. United States v. Cruz, 797 F.2d 90, 98-99 (2d Cir.1986). The district court held that evidence of the disposal of the cash box was relevant because a jury could infer consciousness of guilt or that the money was stolen from the act of throwing money out the window. The court further noted that Burrous was free to argue before the jury that the evidence was not probative on the issue of whether he had perpetrated the Burger King robbery. Such holdings are clearly within the sound discretion of the trial court, and finding no abuse of that discretion, we affirm the district court's holding on this issue without further discussion.