Legal Opinion
United States v. Babatunde Nathaniel Beeks
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 19, 2001No. 01-1734PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Per curiam
In 1998, Babatunde Nathaniel Beeks was charged with conspiring to distribute crack cocaine. In questioning a witness near the end of Beeks’s trial, the Assistant United States Attorney implied, in violation of a pretrial order, that Beeks had a criminal history. Beeks’s motion for a mistrial was denied and the jury returned a guilty verdict. On appeal, we reversed Beeks’s conviction and remanded the case for a new trial because of the prosecutor’s improper questioning. United States v. Beeks, 224 F.3d 741, 748 (8th Cir.2000). Beeks then pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 160 months in…
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