Seventh Circuit· 3/13/2007

United States v. Robert Simpson

Citations

479 F.3d 492
2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 5756
2007 WL 738965

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impermissible propensity argument in defen- dant’s statement that he had participated in so many drug deals he could not remember the specific deal with which he was charged
“[I]t is not enough to say that the outcome probably would have been the same without the pros- ecutor’s improper propensity inference and the evi- dence of [the defendant’s] past unrelated drug deals.”
“In a case where the circumstantial evidence against Simpson was close, the prosecution’s explicit instruction to the jury to draw the inference that Simpson had conducted ‘so many’ crack cocaine deals that he could not remember the deal for which he stood trial was a power- ful argument.”
explaining the “intricately related evidence” doc- trine

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Judges: Bauer, Rovner, Williams

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