Court Opinion

ID: 9465529
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 00:48:44.529682+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:13.403826
License: Public Domain

McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I must respectfully dissent. I have some serious reservations as to whether or not the trial judge may not have abused his discretion in failing to withhold from the jury all references to the disappearance and murder of the owner of the 1972 Dodge, Everett Guy Travis. Although the evidence *1008of the witnesses as to statements made by defendant Derring about the murder was relevant, in my opinion its probative value was substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice and the evidence should have been excluded pursuant to Fed.R.Evid. 404(b).