Gove v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence that defendants had participated in several prior drug trans- actions was properly admitted to establish defendant’s intent to dis- tribute narcotics
• holding that hearsay that repeated direct testimony was “harmlessly cumulative”
• holding multiplicity claim waived because not raised before trial notwithstanding trial court’s attempt to cure by instructing jury that separate counts referred to drugs found at different locations
• stating that evidence is admissible under the rule as long as it is “probative of some material issue other than character” or propensity
• “We review the district court’s Rule 403 determinations with great deference, reversing only for grave abuse of discretion.”
• “To find reversible error, we would have to conclude that the jury disregarded the court’s instructions. There is no reason to assume that it did so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).