United States v. Contreras

EBEL, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-Appellant John Norbert Contreras appeals his bank robbery conviction and life sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a) & 3559(c), respectively. Contreras raises three issues. First, he contends that the district court wrongly admitted his probation officer’s testimony- — which identified Contreras as the robber from surveillance footage — because this opinion testimony was not helpful to the jury and therefore violated Rule 701 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Second, he argues that the officer’s testimony violated Rule 403 and the Sixth Amendment because he…