In a case in which a party intends to offer evidence of other sexual wrongs under a rule such as Federal Rule of Evidence 415 or a comparable State rule, the offering party may be required to disclose such evidence in advance to the party against whom such evidence will be offered.

Sparks v. Gilley Trucking Co., Inc., 992 F.2d 50, pin? (4th Cir. 1993) (negligence action arising from a collision; defendant alleged plaintiff's contributory negligence for speeding at the time of the accident; court allowed defendant's evidence of plaintiff's prior...The prohibition against circumstantial use of character -- the use of character or disposition to show conduct on a particular occasion -- applies in trials of civil actions.

Fed. R. Evid. 803(8) ("Records, reports, statements, or data compilations, in any form, of public offices or agencies, setting forth (A) the activities of the office or agency, or (B) matters observed pursuant to duty imposed by law as to which matters there was a duty to report, excluding, however, in criminal cases matters observed by...An exception to the hearsay rule applies to the following records of government offices and agencies: (A) public records that set forth the activities of the government office or agency; (B) public records that set forth observations that a government office or agency was required to make and report but this exception does not apply in criminal cases to observations of police officers and other law enforcement personnel; or (C) in civil actions and proceedings and in criminal cases when offered against the government, factual findings resulting from an investigation made pursuant to authority granted by law, unless the sources of information or other circumstances indicate the untrustworthiness of such findings.

United States v. Summers, 414 F.3d 1287, pin? (10th Cir. 2005) ("'Viewing the evidence in its entirety, a conviction must be grounded on more than a suspicion of guilt. United States v. Fox, 902 F.2d 1508, 1513 (10th Cir.....Although proof of criminal guilt can rest on chains of inferences, such pyramided inferences must be reasonable.