Legal Opinion

United States v. Bernard Francis Rogers

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided September 5, 1996No. 95-3660SIPublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

A jury convicted Bernard Rogers of one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846(a)(1) and two counts of distribution of methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). The District Court 1 sentenced him to twenty years’ imprisonment on each count, all to run concurrently. Rogers challenges his convictions on three grounds: improper admission of prior-crimes evidence; an erroneous jury instruction; and sufficiency of the evidence. We affirm.

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Between 1992 and 1994, Rogers took part in a multi-state scheme to…

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