United States v. McCarson

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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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