Whether expert evidence based on or involving psychology or psychiatry is sufficiently reliable to satisfy the requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 or comparable State rules for the admissibility of expert evidence

United States v. Carter, 410 F.3d 1017, 1021-1022 (8th Cir. 2005) (upholding trial court's admission of female witnesses' testimony about accused's sexual offenses because such evidence showed similarities between earlier acts of sexual abuse and the charged conduct).Federal Rule of Evidence 413 and comparable rules in a few States create an express exception to the prohibition against circumstantial use of character, the prohibition against the use of character to show conduct. Rules such as Rule 413 provide that in a criminal trial for sexual assault evidence of the defendant's commission of another offense or offenses of sexual assault is admissible.

Connelly v. Hyundai Motor Corp., 351 F.3d 535, 546 (1st Cir. 2003) (civil action arising from the wrongful death of a minor child; held, Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) barred the evidence of the driver's tickets since the evidence of the driver's prior failures to use a seatbelt suggested that he...A person's character, or propensity, is inadmissible to show that person's conduct on a specific occasion.

Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172, pin? (1997).Evidence that is relevant to a material fact is relevant for purposes of Federal Rule of Evidence 401 and the federal law of evidence even though the material fact is undisputed.