United States v. Straker

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that conceded Bruton error was harmless where two cooperators and cell phone evidence provided “overwhelming evidence” of the defendant’s guilt
• noting that balancing under Rule 403 means that the court should lean towards admitting evidence “in close cases”
• holding that prior bad acts were admissible for non- 10 propensity purposes to undermine whether any of the “defendants was somehow mistakenly swept up into activities he did not know were part of a criminal conspiracy” by showing “similar criminal teamwork with some of the same people”
• holding uncharged kidnappings admissible, noting that “danger of unfair prejudice was minimal because the other-crimes evidence added no emotional or other pejorative emphasis not already introduced by the evidence of the crime charged in this case” (internal citation and quotation omitted)
• explaining the district court’s use of a limiting instruction consistent with admission under Rule 404(b)
• noting that “prosecutorial misbehavior alone does not a Brady violation make”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).