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· 1/21/1998

United States of America, Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. John Gibson, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee

Citations

  • 135 F.3d 257
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 797
  • 1998 WL 40277

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • affirming under an abuse of discretion standard an eleven-juror verdict of guilty where one juror was excused because of illness
  • rejecting the notion that “the use of [a defendant’s] prior convictions both to enhance the Career Offender Guideline and to add criminal history points amount[s] to improper double counting”
  • photo array picturing defendant with goatee not improperly suggestive where defendant did not establish that witness earlier told police that perpetrator wore a goatee
  • “[B]ecause [the defen- dant] did not establish that [the eyewitness] told police the perpetrator wore a goatee, portraying [the defendant] with a goatee would not be suggestive.”

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Judges: Miner, Leval, Griesa

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