United States v. Willie C. Cotton, Jr.

SHERMAN G. FINESILVER, District Judge.

Willie C. Cotton, Jr. appeals from his jury trial conviction based on two counts of receipt and sale of a stolen motor vehicle in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2313. As grounds for reversal, Cotton argues that the district court erred in (1) denying Cotton’s motion to suppress evidence seized from a car in a totally unrelated arrest; (2) overruling Cotton’s objection to the admission of evidence of other crimes; (3) denying Cotton’s motion for mistrial based on the prosecution’s question to a witness which Cotton asserts was a comment on his right to remain…