United States v. Ramiro Magana

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence of telephone conversations and a visit to a dealer’s house that showed the defendant obtained the cocaine he sought was sufficient to uphold a conviction for attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine
• suggesting that defendant will have difficulty establishing prejudice “if defense counsel strikes the first blow” and “the prosecutor attempts to even the scales by making a reasonable but otherwise improper response”
• noting, where “tapes played were of conversations in either English, Spanish, or Assyrian,” “that ‘[c]ourts possess wide discretion in determining whether to permit the jury to use written transcripts as aids in listening to tape recordings’” (alteration in original
• “ ‘As long as the basic require- ment of familiarity with the voice is met, lay opinion testimony is an acceptable means for establishing a speaker’s identity.’ ” (quoting United States v. Vega, 860 F.2d 779, 788 (7th Cir. 1988))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).