United States v. Harry Norman King, A/K/A William E. Gray

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• upholding admission of 404(b) evidence to prove that defendant intended to distribute drugs and was not simply\an innocent friend of [his co-defendant's] caught in the wrong place at the wrong time\
• defendant’s prior convictions for dispensing cocaine were admissible on issues of intent and absence of mistake under Rule 404(b)
• trial judge has wide discretion in balancing the proba- tive value of evidence against the danger of unfair prejudice under Fed. R. Evid. 403
• evidence of prior cocaine distribution convictions admissible because it shows drug distribution knowledge, which \makes it more likely that [he] intended to distribute drugs and was not an innocent friend of [co-defendant's] caught in the wrong place at the wrong time\
• evidence of defendant's prior convictions for dispensing cocaine was admissible because it made it more likely that the defendant intended to distribute drugs and was not an innocent friend caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, as the defendant had alleged

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