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202378P.pdf 08/10/2021 United States v. Jami Walking Bull
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-2378
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Western
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Shepherd and Grasz, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not err in admitting
recordings of jail house calls as the government promptly provided
defendant with the evidence as soon as it became aware of its existence
and obtained the calls; no error in refusing to admit testimony from
defendant's proposed expert witness on matters of law; no error in
rejecting defendant's two instructions on his South Dakota sentences; in
this felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm prosecution, the evidence was
sufficient to support the jury's finding that defendant knew at the time
he possessed a firearm that he was a prohibited person - i.e., that he was
previously convicted of a crime punishable by over a year imprisonment.