United States v. Dwight Mason

How courts have described this case

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• guilt-assuming hypotheticals are “not proper and should not have been allowed”
• error in Government’s posing guilt-assuming hypothetical not harmless when only evidence of defendant’s guilt was from paid informant and was not corroborated by audio tape recordings of the transactions
• in a drug distribution case, it was error for government to ask character witness on cross-examination whether his opinion of the defendant would change if he knew that the defendant had “distributed drugs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).