D.C. Circuit· 5/27/2008

United States v. McCarson

Citations

527 F.3d 170
381 U.S. App. D.C. 219
76 Fed. R. Serv. 801
2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 11234
2008 WL 2168637

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holding that subject of arrest warrant apprehended in another’s home lacks, standing to invoke homeowner’s Steagald rights “in his defense”
holding that the district court acted within its discretion in admitting evidence of defendant’s two pri- or convictions for possession of a gun and two prior convictions for distribution of crack cocaine as 404(b
determining that evidence of defendant’s prior firearm possession conviction was admissible under Rule 404(b) where defendant disputed knowledge of firearm recovered from his girlfriend’s apartment
holding two prior possession with intent to distribute convictions and two firearm convictions “were not only relevant; they were also highly probative of . . . his constructive possession of the gun and the drugs”
“[W]e deem . . . a limiting instruction [on the proper consideration of other-acts evidence] ‘sufficient[]’ to ‘protect a defendant’s interest in being free from undue prejudice’ by virtue of his prior conviction(s) being put into evidence.” (third alteration in original

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Judges: Ginsburg, Brown, Kavanaugh

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