Seventh Circuit· 10/13/2005

United States v. Percy E. Moore

Citations

425 F.3d 1061
68 Fed. R. Serv. 630
2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 22059
2005 WL 2559505

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

stating that we review findings of defendant’s competency for clear error
calling the hurdle “ ‘nearly insurmountable’ ” (quot- ing United States v. Frazier, 213 F.3d 409, 416 (7th Cir. 2000)
rejecting the defendant’s chain-of-custody argument, and providing that “[a] perfect chain of custody is not a prerequisite to admission, as gaps in the chain normally go to the weight of the evidence rather than its admissibility” (alteration in original
there is a “nearly insurmountable hurdle” to prevailing on a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence
“ ‘Waiver precludes appellate review, but forfeiture permits review for plain error.’ ” (quoting United States v. Jaimes-Jaimes, 406 F.3d 845, 847 (7th Cir. 2005))

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Judges: Coffey, Ripple, Sykes

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