United States v. Ladarius Venice Cook

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• concluding that drug convictions that were eight and nine years old were not too remote
• concluding that drug convictions that were eight and nine years old were not too remote
• holding that the evidence of a prior drug offense involving marijuana was erroneously admitted in a cocaine distribution case because, in relevant part, the prior offense of possession was functionally dissimilar to the charged offense of distribution
• stating that we “have frequently upheld the admission of prior drug convictions” to show intent when a defendant denies committing a drug offense
• upholding the exclusion of evidence of past convictions for crimes that superficially resembled the charged offense but were “functionally dissimilar”
• “[T]he government’s expansive Rule 404 (b

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).