072295P.pdf   05/13/2008  United States  v.  Marco Ironi
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-2295
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Melloy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. No error in refusing to admit an out-of-
   court statement as the statement was not supported by corroborating
   circumstances clearly indicting its trustworthiness; evidence of prior drug
   crimes was properly admitted as it was relevant to defendant's intent and
   knowledge and was close in time and similar in kind; district court 
   avoided any prejudicial effect admission of the prior crimes evidence
   might have had by giving the jury a limiting instruction; district court did
   not err in refusing to give defendant's proposed buyer-seller instruction,
   as the instruction was not appropriate in light of the evidence showing
   multiple drug transactions; evidence was sufficient to support conviction
   for aiding and abetting possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.