Whether another crime may be used "circumstantially" -- i.e., for a purpose other than witness impeachment -- and for an otherwise permissible non-propensity purpose even if the person who allegedly committed the other crime was acquitted of the other crime in a different trial.

Contributed in 2010 & last edited in 2010 by Peter Tillers
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