United States Fifth Circuit

A conviction for possession with intent to distribute marijuana is affirmed over claims of error that: 1) the district court improperly denied a challenge for cause of a biased prospective juror; and 2) the district court improperly admitted drug profiling testimony as substantive evidence of guilt, and allowed expert testimony regarding his mental state.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/06/2007
• Published 11/07/2007

Judges

• W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS, WIENER, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert S. Johnson (argued), Laredo, TX, James Lee Turner and Renata Ann Gowie, Asst. U.S. Attys., Houston, TX, for U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marjorie A. Meyers, Fed. Pub. Def., Laura Fletcher Leavitt, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def. (argued), Molly E. Odom, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.