Legal Opinion

United States v. Dion Thomas

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided July 28, 2014No. 13-2650PublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SMITH, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted Dion Thomas of two heroin-related offenses. The district court 1 sentenced him to 240 months’ imprisonment and eight years of supervised release. On appeal, he challenges the district court’s (1) grant of the government’s motion in limine over his Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) objection, which allowed witnesses to testify about Thomas’s alleged crack distribution, and denial of Thomas’s objection to testimony about money laundering; (2) denial of Thomas’s motions for new counsel; (3) calculation of Thomas’s offense level by considering uncharged,…

2Cases cited27 opinions

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3Cited by19 opinions

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