United States v. David Earnest

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• recognizing that a court may rely on the testimony of experts and other witnesses in con- cluding that a substance is crack cocaine
• holding that a district court properly relied on the testimony of “witness after witness” that the drugs at issue were crack, despite the government expert’s less precise conclusion that the drugs were “cocaine base.”
• holding that a district court properly relied on the testimony of \witness after witness\ that the drugs at issue were crack, despite the government expert’s less precise conclusion that the drugs were \cocaine base.\
• relying in part on description of cocaine base as an “ ‘off-white, chunky substance’ ” in upholding district court’s finding that substance was crack
• sellers and buyers of crack cocaine are experts in what constitutes crack

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