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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

"If You Most Know, You Know”: Expert Testimony That “Most” Drug Couriers Know They’re Carrying Drugs Allowed to...

If you know, you know. The government’s less familiar version — if most know, the defendant knows — just got a boost from the Supreme Court of the United States, which recently held that Federal Rule of Evidence 704(b) did...more

Cozen O'Connor

Notice of Appeal - Fall 2020

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Precedential Opinions of Note - Evidence from Outside Limitations Period Permissible to Prove Ongoing Scheme to Defraud - United States v. James (April 3, 2020), No. 19-1250...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Circuit Sidesteps Interesting Suppression Questions in Body-Packing Case

The Second Circuit issued a published opinion on September 11, 2017 in United States v. Pabon, No. 16-1754 (Cabranes, Livingston, Pauley), a case arising from an interesting set of facts involving the warrantless arrest of...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

“Toxic” Hearsay Upends Murder Convictions for Member of Bronx Drug Trafficking Crew

In a rare move, the Second Circuit (Jacobs, Pooler, Hall) overturned Armani Cummings’s convictions for murder, conspiracy, and multiple drugs and firearms offenses. The Court reversed based on violation of the hearsay...more

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