United States v. Benjamin Harold Brooks and Frederick James Treesh

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• holding that adequate limiting instructions were sufficient to cure any potential prejudice from admission of Rule 404(b) evidence
• stating that \limiting instructions are sufficient to cure any potential prejudice resulting from the admission of 404(b) evidence\
• holding that while it was “detrimental to the defendants for the jury to view them as drug addicts,” evidence that they used cocaine and “desire[d] to obtain more” was admissible on the basis that it “was rele- vant to [their] motive” to rob a bank
• holding that while it was “detrimental to the defendants for the jury to view them as drug addicts,” evidence that they used cocaine and “desire[d] to obtain more” was admissible on the basis that it “was rele- vant to [their] motive” to rob a bank
• noting that resolution of ineffective assistance claim brought prematurely on direct appeal without adequate record development will have preclusive effect on any subsequent collateral effort that may have had greater likelihood of success
• finding voluntary waiver despite the fact that defendant was high on crack, sleep deprived, and in pain

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