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.