UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Abel ZAPATA, Luis Ocampo, Defendants-Appellants

How courts have described this case

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• stating that when a defendant pleads not guilty, intent becomes a material issue, absent affirmative steps by the defendant to remove the issue of intent
• stating that a not guilty plea “imposes a substantial burden on the government to prove intent”
• explaining that a district court’s jury instruction as to the limited purpose of other-acts evidence diminishes its prejudicial effect
• recognizing “the district judge diminished the prejudicial impact of the [extrinsic] evidence by properly instructing the jury for what limited purpose the extrinsic evidence was to be used”
• sentencing “may be based on fair, accurate, and conservative estimates of the quantity of drugs attributable to a defendant”
• “A defendant who enters a not guilty plea makes intent a material issue which imposes a substantial burden on the government to prove intent . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).