United States v. Dawon D. Puckett

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• holding that a conviction six years prior to charged offense is close enough in time to be relevant, and citing cases where “convictions entered as long as thirteen years prior to subsequent prosecutions . . . are admissible”
• “evidence of a prior conviction ... is especially relevant and probative” when defendant conceded that he had possession of a large amount of cocaine, but claimed it was for personal use
• 63 grams of cocaine is “in and of itself sufficient evidence to compel an inference that [the defendant] intended to distribute the drug”
• \evidence of a prior conviction . . . is especially relevant and probative\ when defendant conceded that he had possession of a large amount of cocaine, but claimed it was for personal use
• a prior conviction for distribution of crack cocaine is ad- missible where the charged act involves distribution of cocaine, as the distinction between the two is a dis- tinction without substance
• “evidence of a prior conviction . . . is especially relevant and probative” when defendant conceded that he had possession of a large amount of cocaine, but claimed it was for personal use

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).