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203322P.pdf 04/13/2022 United States v. Isiah Dozier
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-3322
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Central
[PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Shepherd and Wollman, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The Bureau of Prisons' administrative
investigation into charges that defendant possessed contraband and the
outcome of the investigation are inadmissible under Evidence Rule 403, and
the district court did not err in excluding testimony from the Bureau of
Prisons employee who conducted the proceeding regarding defendant's
possible discipline; no error in admitting the shoes in which the
government alleged defendant concealed contraband as defendant could
produce no evidence that the shoes, which were seized at the time he was
taken to disciplinary segregation, had been altered; because an inmate
charged under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1791(a)(2) need not know specifically what
prohibited items he has, so long as he knows that possessed a prohibited
object, the district court's instructions in the case were proper;
evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction for possessing
prohibited objects in prison.