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183000P.pdf 12/20/2019 United States v. Samory Monds
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-3000
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Loken and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. No error in admitting
evidence of defendant's three prior felony drug convictions as the
convictions were probative on the questions of knowledge and intent; the
court's decision to admit only the judgments of prior convictions, without
details, and give a cautionary instruction justified its conclusion that
the probative value of the evidence was not substantially outweighed by
its prejudicial effect; admission of testimony of police officer that he
was present to arrest defendant for violating conditions of supervised
release did not violate Rule 403, and the testimony was admissible to
explain the circumstances surrounding the event; further,the jury, which
was already of aware of defendant's prior convictions, also received a
cautionary instruction concerning use of the testimony; the district court
did not err in denying defendant a two-level reduction for acceptance of
responsibility where defendant went to trial and denied factual guilt.