United States v. George Gotchis

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• affirming admission of defendant’s response to a pedigree question, even though the response helped establish defendant’s intent to commit the crime with which he was charged
• affirming admission of defendant's response to a pedigree question, even though the response helped establish defendant's intent to commit the crime with which he was charged
• deeming hooking questions about employment permissible in a case where the police arrested defendant for a drug offense
• finding that defendant’s statement that he had been unemployed for eight years, which ultimately proved incriminating insofar as it indicated intent to distribute drugs, was admissible because such information is in most instances innocent and useful in the booking and arraignment of defendants
• comment on the absence of an available fact witness is proper to infer the improbability of the defendant’s theory of the case
• no obligation on the government to preserve notes later reduced to formal reports

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).