Eleventh Circuit· 4/22/2009

United States v. Covington

Citations

565 F.3d 1336
79 Fed. R. Serv. 503
2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 8263
2009 WL 1066256

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explaining that “18 U.S.C. § 3584(b) authorizes the district court to impose a con- secutive sentence provided that it first considers the § 3553(a) fac- tors”
rejecting defendant’s reliance on Coates where “[t]he FBI did not contrive to make the phone calls in order to manufacture the interstate element as was the case in Coates, but only collected more and better evidence of the crime”
“Once [the sentencing] factors are considered, the only limitation on running sentences consecutively is that the resulting total sentence must be reasonable.”
any prejudice flowing from admission of evidence of domestic violence was not “unfair” where it had significant probative value
“Rule 404 (b) prohibits the introduction of pure propensity evidence.”
“Rule 404 (b) prohibits the 9 introduction of pure propensity evidence.”

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Judges: Carnes, Hull, Cox

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