United States v. Nason

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• listing circumstances where 10 false documents may not undermine credibility, including 11 where “fraudulent documents . . . were created 12 to escape persecution”
• upholding admission of scales, bags, and baggies seized from motel room registered to defendant's girl- friend at time of defendant's arrest on the marijuana charges for which he was on trial
• reversible error only if instruction was substantially correct, was not covered in charge given, and failure to give it substantially impaired ability to present a defense
• severance properly denied where codefendant's counsel did not represent that codefendant would testify, nor did defendant file affidavit from codefendant to that effect
• reversible error only if _____ instruction was substantially correct, was not covered in charge given, and failure to give it substantially impaired ability to present a defense
• “[Appellant] did not make this argument in his brief, and a letter submitted pursuant to [R]ule 28(j) cannot raise a new issue.” (alteration in original) (internal quotation omitted)

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