United States v. Gabriel Guerrero

How courts have described this case

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• noting that death threats made to a testifying witness are “highly probative of consciousness of guilt.”
• finding evidence that while incarcerated, the defendant threatened an alleged coconspirator not to testify against him was relevant to show consciousness of guilt
• “[T]he Rule 403 standard is inexact, requiring . . . considerable deference on the part of the reviewing court to the hands-on judgment of the trial judge.”
• threat or intimidation “appeals to the jury’s sympathies, arouses a sense of horror, provokes its instinct to punish, or otherwise may cause a jury to base its decision on something other than the established propositions in the case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).