Where a test for admission to other-acts evidence in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was incorrect, it replaced with a new framework based more closely on the Federal Rules of Evidence.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by U.S. District Judge William J. Hibbler.
Nicolas Gomez was suspected of being involved in a cocaine-distribution ring operating in Chicago and Milwaukee. Federal agents wiretapped the phone of Robert Romero, a known Chicago supplier. The wiretaps included conversations …