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· 1/15/1997

United States v. Antonio M. Smart

Citations

  • 98 F.3d 1379
  • 321 U.S. App. D.C. 216
  • 1996 WL 629317

How courts have described this case

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

  • requiring that district courts sometimes use jury in- structions to prevent expert testimony from violating Rule 704(b)
  • explaining that substantial prejudice is “not a mere suffieiency-of-the-evidence inquiry”
  • explaining that substantial prejudice is “not a mere sufficiency-of-the-evidence inquiry”
  • “[I]f the other evidence presented in this case had been even slightly ambiguous, we would be required to reverse Smart’s conviction.”
  • “At all times, the burden of proving that an error was not prejudicial rests on the government.”
  • expert testimony on “large amounts of cash in small-denomination bills” proper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Edwards, Wald, Buckley

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