United States v. Roderick L. Cochran

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that we “analyze the ob- jected-to portion of [jury] instructions in light of the entire charge” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that prior convictions relating to “drug trafficking are considered highly probative of intent to commit the charged drug trafficking offenses”
• upholding the admission of evidence of a prior drug offense under Rule 404(b
• evidence of defendant’s prior trafficking conviction involving a different drug was more probative than prejudicial in prosecution for trafficking
• “It is an established principle that we evaluate a jury instruction in the context of the overall charge.”
• “[A]lthough the wording of the final sentence of the . . . instruction would have been more clear if it included language about knowledge or intent, that flaw is mitigated by the totality of the instructions.”

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