United States v. Morton, Serita L.

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• holding that, when “an appellant failed to raise a contemporaneous objection at trial,” a defendant “must demonstrate that the trial court committed [] plain error”
• holding that testimony about a witness's belief was not opinion testimony when offered to prove the witness's reason for behaving in accordance with that belief
• holding that, when “an appellant failed to raise a contemporaneous objection at trial,” a defendant “must demonstrate that the trial court committed [] plain error”
• noting that the defendant’s failure to object to an officer’s testimony “deprived the Government of any opportunity to lay a proper foundation”
• incriminating statements made while conversing with police officers from the back of a police vehicle were spontaneous and voluntary because the officer’s responses to the defendant’s statements “did not ‘compel’ or even 16 encourage [the defendant] to incriminate herself.”
• “A witness’s testimony about his own state of mind is not opinion testimony.”

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