United States v. Garcia Mendoza

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that even a drug transaction occurring five years before the charged conduct was “a close enough temporal interval for rule 404(b) purposes.”
• concluding evidence of accused conspirator’s involvement in another drug conspiracy five years earlier “highly relevant” to his intent
• holding an overt act occurred in the Eastern District of Texas, because the defendant supplied methamphetamine to an uncharged third-party who sold it at the street level in the Eastern District
• “Venue can be based on evidence of any single act that initiated, perpetuated, or complet ed the crime.”
• “[O]ne co-conspirator’s travel through a judicial district in furtherance of the crime alleged establishes venue as to all co- conspirators.”
• “[O]ne co-conspirator’s travel through a judicial district in furtherance of the crime alleged establishes venue as to all co- conspirators.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).