United States v. Gabriel B. Folks

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an improper jury instruction was harmless where the defendant’s fingerprints were found on plastic bags containing drug residue and a trial witness testified that the defendant sold drugs out of the home that was searched
• finding that plastic bags and a scale covered with drug residue constituted evidence to support conviction for possession with intent to distribute a controlled susbstance
• holding error harmless with fingerprints as primary evidence against defendant
• holding error harmless with fingerprints as primary evidence against defendant
• pausing and listing cases “to note the potentially serious injuries that may arise from the use of a flash-bang device during a search”
• precluding the possibility of a second prosecution for conduct encompassed by a broadly-worded indictment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).