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Prohibition against use of a person's character, propensity, or disposition to show the person's conduct on a particular occasion; i.e., the prohibition against "circumstantial" character evidence, or the prohibition against "circumstantial" use of a person's character or propensity.

Contributed in 2008 by Peter Tillers
Last edited in 2009 by Nicholas Diamand
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