Legal Opinion
United States v. Juan Arturo Mendoza-Medina
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 10, 2003No. 02-40978PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
Juan Arturo Mendoza-Medina appeals his convictions for conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute more than fifty kilograms of marijuana. 1 We affirm the judgment of conviction, finding that any error in the district court’s charge to the jury on deliberate indifference was harmless and that the court’s admission of hearsay evidence was not plain error. We also conclude that although the trial court erred in admitting the opinion testimony of a government agent, on the facts of this case this abuse of the use of a “background” witness…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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