Legal Opinion
United States v. Lavern Hankey, AKA Poo, Opinion
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 18, 2000No. 18-56300PublishedCited by 459 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JONES, District Judge:
Lavern Hankey appeals his conviction and sentence for distributing and conspiring to possess with intent to distribute phencylidine (“PCP”). At trial, after Han-key’s co-defendant testified that Hankey was not involved in the transactions, the district court admitted rebuttal testimony from a police gang expert that gang members who testify against one of their own are customarily beaten or killed by other members of their gang. In addition, the district court precluded the testimony of a defense lawyer, who was contacted by Hankey’s girlfriend the day of his arrest,…
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