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A bank was robbed, and both video and eyewitness accounts were not able to identify the bank robber. D was arrested in Georgia some months later. D had been stopped from a traffic check in an area where an armed robbery had just taken place. D was acting suspiciously and had false identification but no license. D was arrested for driving without a license. Several guns were found in the car. D then escaped from custody but was eventually charged with the bank robbery in New York. P sought to use the evidence that D was in Georgia and used a fake name. P also wanted to introduce the fact that D had been indicted for assault in New York a month prior to the New York bank robbery. D filed a pretrial motion to exclude the evidence of a false name and the prior assault charge.

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