Seventh Circuit· 1/9/2008

United States v. Upton

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512 F.3d 394
2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 422
2008 WL 80640

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holding that felony convictions for domestic battery under § 5/12-3.2(a)(1) “clearly qualify” as “violent felon[ies]” under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B
concluding that the court’s earlier determination that posses- sion of a sawed-off shotgun was a crime of violence under the (continued...
finding no abuse of discretion where a few questions were posed during the officer’s expert testimony regarding his factual knowledge of the case
discussing the concerns when a jury may unduly credit the witness’s fact testimony given his status as an expert
cautionary instruction given before the witness testified and twenty-minute break given between the two types of testimony
“Before [Detective] Eversman’s testimony, the district court gave a cautionary instruction explaining that Eversman would be serving both functions as a witness.” (emphasis added)

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Judges: Posner, Flaum, Rovner

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