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OPINION
Evidentiary Matters
We deal first with the admissibility of certain facts and
exhibits to which the parties stipulated, but as to which the
parties preserved evidentiary objections in the stipulations of
facts. At trial, we admitted those facts and exhibits into
evidence conditionally, subject to our ruling on their admis-
sibility.
The bases for most of the objections in the stipulations of
facts are that certain stipulated facts and exhibits are inadmis-
sible under rule 402 of the Federal Rules of Evidence because
they are not relevant as defined in rule 401 of those rules and
that, if such facts and exhibits are relevant, they are in any
event inadmissible under rule 403 of those rules. We have
examined each of the stipulated facts and exhibits in question
and find each of them to be relevant. Fed. R. Evid. 401. In
addition, we find that the probative value of each of those facts
and exhibits outweighs any potential for unfair prejudice,
confusion, or other basis for inadmissibility stated in rule 403
of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Accordingly, we overrule all
of the parties' evidentiary objections based on rules 401, 402,
and 403 of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
Each party also objected in the stipulations of facts to
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