United States v. Danna Yvonne Bender (99-6230) and David E. Culliver (99-6236)

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• concluding that the discovery of narcotics in a package supported the issuance of an anticipatory search warrant for the package’s destination
• holding that a police officer with 14 years experience was qualified “as an expert on the drug-trafficking business and the manufacture and use of powder cocaine and cocaine base”
• concluding that the door had been opened to the admission of a more-then-ten-year-old conviction
• allowing the use of two twelve year-old convictions to impeach the credibility of a witness who had made “misleading” statements
• permitting the government to cross-examine the defendant about prior drug trafficking convictions because she testified on direct examination that she had never sold drugs and did not start using them until 1992
• sufficient for enhancement that two handguns were found in the bedroom closet, and that various drug paraphernalia was present in the bedroom

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).