Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Pena v. United States
456 U.S. 978
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1982-05-17
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- use of heroin relevant to showing detectives’ relationship to the drug transaction and to the other participants
- evidence of heroin transaction involving one codefendant, where both were charged only with separate cocaine transaction, was admissible to establish the close relationship between the two defendants
Citator
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C. A. 1st Cir. Certiorari denied.