United States v. Derek Foster

How courts have described this case

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• holding that although certain behavior may have an innocent explanation, it is a fair use of expert testimony to offer another explanation for that behavior
• collecting cases and noting that our circuit “is quite familiar with the use during trial of expert testimony as to the methods used by drug dealers”
• finding no error in the admission of profile evidence as evidence of guilt
• it is fair use of expert testimony to offer incriminatory explanation for behavior that may otherwise appear innocent
• “Despite our country’s “war on drugs’ and its accompanying media coverage, it is still a reasonable assumption that jurors are not well versed in the behavior of drug dealers.”
• rap containing \drug code words\ admissible to show knowledge of drug trade, not to show that defendant \was the character portrayed in the lyrics\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).