United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's convictions for conspiring to distribute marijuana and cocaine, and for possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it, are affirmed in part where: 1) the shooting as to which the district court admitted evidence was similar to the drug-trafficking charged in this case because it stemmed from a dispute over a drug debt; and 2) the probative value of the testimony was not substantially outweighed by its potential for unfair prejudice. However, the convictions are reversed in part where there was no evidence from which a reasonable jury could have found that defendant knew, on June 9, 2007, that there was cocaine in a cohort's car.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/01/2010
• Published 09/01/2010

Judges

• David M. Ebel

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel