United States v. Carlos Ignacio Vega

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• holding that evidence of the defendant’s involvement in a prior drug conspiracy was admissible to prove \that he did not unwittingly participate\ in the charged conspiracy
• holding that there was no prejudice despite the juror’s concern about a spectator staring at him because the juror stated that he could continue to be fair and impartial and the court banned the spectator from the courtroom
• permitting use of Rule 404(b) evidence related to prior conspiracy to show that the defendant “did not unwittingly participate” in the charged crime
• permitting use of Rule 404(b) evidence because that evidence tended-to show that the defendant “did not unwittingly participate” in the charged crime
• requiring courts to look beyond a potentially tainted juror’s subjective assessment of their impartiality
• discussing admissibility of prior bad acts to show 6 knowledge with respect to drug conspiracy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).