U.S. v. GREEN, 274 Fed.Appx. 831 (11th Cir. 2008)

No. 07-14038 Non-Argument Calendar.United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
April 23, 2008.

Anne R. Schultz, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Jacqueline Esther Shapiro, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Miami, FL, Kathleen M. Williams, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. D.C. Docket No. 06-20679-CR-ASG.

Before ANDERSON, BARRETT and HULL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Stanford Green appeals his conviction for making or aiding and abetting a false statement in connection with acquiring a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6), and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). On appeal, he argues that his conviction should be reversed because the district court erroneously admitted prejudicial evidence of his prior purchase of three firearms which occurred about 13 months prior to the crimes at issue in this case and for which he was not charged. At the very least, Green argues that a limiting instruction should have been given regarding the evidence of this uncharged criminal conduct.

We review a district court’s evidentiary rulings for an abuse of discretion. United States v. Eckhardt, 466 F.3d 938, 946 (11th Cir. 2006), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 127 S.Ct. 1305, 167 L.Ed.2d 117 (2007) and we find none here. Evidence of the September 2005 transaction was sufficiently inter-twined with the events involved in this trial that it cannot be said that there was an abuse of discretion in admitting the evidence. Nor do we find any error in the failure to give a specific limiting instruction, especially as Green failed to request such a limiting instruction.

AFFIRMED.