Legal Opinion
United States v. Brooks
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 29, 2007No. 05-30261PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GUILFORD, District Judge:
Appellant Alfonso Allan Brooks (“Brooks”) appeals his drug-related convictions, challenging aspects of the jury instructions, the indictment, the sentencing, and testimony he claims was reversible vouching. We affirm, although we do not condone the vouching.
BACKGROUND
The drug investigation in this case began in New York and moved to Seattle, where the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) obtained a wiretap and intercepted Brooks’s calls from April 4, 2003 through August 1, 2003. Two teams of agents in Seattle also conducted full-time surveillance of Brooks and his…
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