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042478P.pdf   02/23/2005  USA  v.  Corey Thomas
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-2478
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Criminal Case - criminal law. District court did not abuse its discretion 
   in admitting evidence of prior dealing in crack cocaine and from the 
   search of defendant's residence. Convictions and search were similar 
   enough to the charged offense to support an inference of intent to 
   distribute. The court's limiting instructions decreased the danger of unfair 
   prejudice. Prior convictions which supported mandatory life sentence did 
   not implicate Apprendi or Booker. [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with 
   Chief Judge Loken and M. Arnold, Circuit Judges]