In US v. Alston, No. 10-1478, the court affirmed defendant’s conviction and sentence for possessing with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of cocaine base, holding that 1) In the context of this case, the officer who performed the search at issue had more than a general suspicion of wrongdoing; 2) the district court did not err in excluding defendant’s proffered hearsay evidence, because it was not all that probative of the officer’s character for truthfulness, even if it was true that the detective lied to his superiors; and 3) defendant did not show why the district court would have altered his sentence based on the burden placed on defendant’s dependents by his obligation to pay per quarter.
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- Read the Eighth Circuit’s Decision in US v. Alston, No. 10-1478
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