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001618P.pdf   05/18/2001  United States  v.  Cornelius Peoples
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  00-1618
                          and No:  00-1658
   Western District of Missouri   
   Criminal case - criminal law. Court's instruction was sufficient to 
   cure any prejudice from prosecutor's comment concerning a murder; 
   empaneling an anonymous jury was not an abuse of the court's 
   discretion; recording prison visit conversations did not violate 
   federal wiretap law and defendants did not have any expectation of 
   privacy in the conversations; evidence of other crimes was properly 
   admitted as it bore on motive; court erred in admitting as lay opinions 
   the testimony of an FBI agent interpreting the meaning of certain 
   words and phrases in defendants' recorded conversations; when a 
   law enforcement officer is not qualified as an expert by the court, 
   her testimony is admissible as lay opinion only when she is a 
   participant in the conversations, has personal knowledge of the facts 
   being related or observed the conversations as they occurred; case 
   remanded for a new trial.