Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.An act under the other acts exception must have occurred prior to the commission of the crime for which the defendant is being charged.
2.The prosecution is barred from attacking the character of the accused unless the defendant “opens the door” by offering evidence of a pertinent character trait.
3.Evidence of the victim’s character is limited to reputation or opinion evidence.
4.Under the Federal Rules of Evidence, in a homicide case, the prosecutor may offer evidence of the alleged victim’s trait of peacefulness to rebut any evidence that the alleged victim was the first aggressor and does not have to wait for the defendant to place the character of the victim at issue.
5.Evidence of prior criminal acts is never admissible.
1.false
2.true
3.true
4.true
5.false
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