United States v. David Monahan

David Monahan appeals from a cocaine conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) & 846. He claims that the district court improperly admitted evidence of his prior con-. viction for obstructing justice, which resulted from his threat of unspecified harm to a key witness should the witness testify in the cocaine case. * The court stated that the evidence was admitted to show consciousness of guilt rather than propensity for crime. Monahan refused the court’s offer to give a limiting instruction to the jury. Monahan now argues that under Rule 403 the probative value of this evidence is outweighed…