United States v. Duane A. Duvall

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• holding that, even if expert testimony opining that drugs were packaged for distribution was admitted in error, the error was harm- less because the defendant admitted he intended to distrib- ute the drugs in question
• stating that the goal of Rule 16 is “to provide the opponent with a fair opportunity to test the merit of the expert’s testimony through focused cross-examination”
• concluding that one sentence indicating the expert’s testimony would be “based on his education, training and experience” with his employer police department and the DEA, along with a copy of his resume, “conforms to the minimum that we have found adequate”
• explaining that, even if government fails to prove beyond a reasonable doubt facts necessary to support enhanced sentence, “it does not jeopardize the conviction”
• finding insufficient a general list of topics that lacked the witness’s actual opinion
• jury need only find that defendant possessed with intent to distribute “some quantity” of methamphetamine to secure conviction under § 841(b)(1)(C)

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