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· 4/25/1990

United States v. Jardee Carter

Citations

  • 901 F.2d 683
  • 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 6533
  • 1990 WL 50817

How courts have described this case

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

  • overwhelming evidence found when package contained drugs, defendant’s name, and defendant was seen picking up package and throwing it out of car
  • describing the “investigative tools” of the Postal Service’s “Narcotic Mail Profile Program” as impermissible drug courier profile evidence
  • “Drug courier profiles are investigative tools, not evidence of guilt. . . . [They] are not to be admitted as substantive evidence of guilt.”
  • “Drug courier profiles are investigative tools, not evidence of guilt.... [They] are not to be admitted as substantive evidence of guilt.”
  • “The admission of a profile into evidence is inherently prejudicial and can easily influence a jury into thinking that the defendant is guilty.”
  • “Drug courier profiles are investigative tools, not evidence of guilt. . . . [They] are not to be admitted as substantive evidence of guilt.”

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Judges: McMillian, Fagg, Heaney

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