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Ninth Circuit· 9/5/2007

United States v. Mitchell

Citations

  • 502 F.3d 931
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 21201
  • 2007 WL 2482077

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  • holding that testimony was “not so plainly inflam- matory that it should have been excluded sua sponte”
  • holding that “in light of the overwhelming evidence of guilt” it could not “possibly have been plain error, in the absence of a motion to strike,” for the district court to allow7 the testimony
  • holding that the Government could introduce evidence about Navajo religious tradition to show that a murder victim’s family no longer had access to its primary source of religious knowledge
  • holding that “in light of the overwhelming evidence of guilt” it could not “possibly have been plain error, in the absence of a motion to strike,” for the district court to allow the testimony
  • noting that enacted statutes have given the federal government limited jurisdiction over certain UNITED STATES V. JAMES 7 major crimes committed on Native American land
  • recognizing 22 that the Supreme Court “drew this line well aware of the ‘objections always raised 23 against categorical rules[.]’”

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Judges: Reinhardt, Rymer, Silverman

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