federal Rule of Evidence 404 allows "other crimes, wrongs, or acts" to be admitted in a criminal trial for other purposes such as motive, opportunity, intent , preparation, plan, knowledge, identity or absence of mistake or accident. this rule allows testimony about acts or crimes for which a defendant was never charged or convicted. Consider the following (after reading the rule):

1) does this rule give a prosecutor too much leeway to introduce prejudicial evidence?

2) READ RULE 403 and discuss whether 404 is consistent with the protections in 403.