Crimmins

MEMORANDUM **

Frank Crimmins appeals his conviction and sentence for multiple counts of producing counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes and related crimes, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 471 , 472 and 473. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Crimmins contends that the district court abused its discretion by admitting highly prejudicial evidence of a prior crime in violation of Fed.R.Evid. 404(b) and 403. We review for abuse of discretion a district court’s decision to admit evidence of prior bad conduct under Fed.R.Evid. 404(b). United States v. Arambula-Ruiz, 987 F.2d 599, 602 (9th Cir.1993). A district court’s decision to admit such evidence will be reversed for an abuse of discretion.. United States v. Ramirez, 176 F.3d 1179, 1182 (9th Cir.1999).

The district court here properly determined that admission of evidence concerning Crimmin’s prior crime was: 1) probative of intent, which is a material element of the crimes currently challenged; 2) not too remote in time as it occurred just over one year prior to the instant offenses involved the possession of counterfeit treasury notes; 3) sufficiently similar as it also involved possession of counterfeit…