United States v. Ledford Gene Harding

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• concluding reversal required because the government’s case “depended entirely on uncorroborated testimony”
• noting that the similarity between a prior offense for possession of 80 pounds of marijuana with the present offense of the sale of one gram of cocaine created a strong risk of unfair prejudice
• allowing evidence of a similar prior drug offense for the purpose of impeaching the credibility of the defendant but not for the purpose of showing a propensity to commit the charged offense
• finding plain error in the admission of details of prior convictions
• allowing evidence of a similar prior drug offense for the purpose of impeaching the credibility of the defendant but not for the purpose of showing a propensity to commit the charged offense
• prosecutor could have brought out the fact that the police seized 80 pounds of marijuana from defendant, but it was plain error to inquire further into the details of the prior crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).