United States v. Guillermo Vallejo

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• holding that an agent’s testimony about different roles played by various members of drug trafficking organizations was unfairly prejudicial because it implied that the defendant knew how the organizations operated
• holding that third party 35 Case 2:19-cv-02597-KJM-KJN Document 17 Filed 12/17/21 Page 36 of 56 1 culpability evidence is only admissible if it tends to prove that a person other than the defendant 2 committed the charged crime
• holding that third party culpability 28 evidence is only admissible if it tends to prove that a person other than the defendant committed 21 Case 2:19-cv-01999-KJM-KJN Document 19 Filed 11/18/21 Page 22 of 31 1 the charged crime
• determining that the district court abused its discretion where it excluded expert testimony and “never clearly articulated why it excluded this evidence”
• recognizing four \independent grounds for reversal \ and remanding for a new trial
• holding that expert testimony concerning the structure of drug trafficking organizations is inadmissible where the defendant is not charged with a conspiracy to import drugs or where such evidence is not otherwise probative of a matter properly before the court

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