United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's methamphetamine possession conviction is affirmed where: 1) defendant opened the door to further questioning of an officer regarding the information he received from a confidential informant, and thus that testimony did not violate the Confrontation Clause; 2) the district court's fact allocution properly explained the basis for a codefendant's guilty plea and placed that evidence in context; and 3) defendant opened the door for inquiry about his illegal status by testifying about his clean record.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/19/2010
• Published 02/19/2010

Judges

• O'BRIEN, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, Chief Circuit Judge, HARTZ and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bel-Ami Jean de Montreux of Montreux Freres, P.C., Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellant., Stephen J. Sorenson, Assistant United States Attorney (Brett L. Tolman, United States Attorney with him on the briefs) Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellee.