United States v. Gary Ladd

How courts have described this case

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• holding that because “jurors are not expected to be familiar with the idiom and workings of the heroin community ... [ejxpert interpretation of drug jargon and practices, supplied by one versed in the business, has often been admitted to assist the trier of fact in drug-trafficking cases”
• finding erroneous admission of evidence harmless when the evidence served only to prove a point well documented by other evidence
• describing chain of custody requirements
• explicating Kotteakos \fair assurance\ standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).