United States v. Yagih Aboumoussallem

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• finding that a joint investigation by state and federal authorities does not preclude separate prosecutions
• noting that “a narrow exception to the ‘dual sovereignty’ doctrine, carved out in Bartkus v. Illinois, bars a second prosecution where one prosecuting sovereign can be said to be acting as a ‘tool’ of the (. . . continued
• relying on Bartkus to hold that a second prosecution by another sovereign is barred when it is a “‘[s]ham and a cover’ for the first”
• evidence that defendant's cousins duped another person into transporting hashish not inadmissible under Rule 404(b)
• evidence that defendant's cousins duped another person into transporting hashish not inadmissible under Rule 404(b)
• upholding exclusion of testimony to avoid “trial within a trial”

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