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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Quigley v. Winter, 598 F.3d 938 (2010)

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Quigley v. Winter, 598 F.3d 938 (2010)
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Quigley v. Winter, 598 F.3d 938 (2010)
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2010-03-16

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We now turn to Winter’s claim that the district court made improper evidentiary rulings regarding the admission of testimony at trial. “A district court enjoys wide discretion in ruling on the admissibility of proffered evidence, and evidentiary rulings should only be overturned if there was a clear and prejudicial abuse of discretion.” US Salt, 563 F.3d at 689-90 (internal marks and quotations omitted). “The reason for [our] extremely deferential standard of review is obvious: A Rule 403 ruling' — as much as any type of determination made by a district court — depends on factors that are uniquely accessible to the *951trial judge who is present in the courtroom and uniquely inaccessible to an appellate judge who must take the case on a cold record.” Olson v. Ford Motor Co., 481 F.3d 619, 623 (8th Cir.2007).