Ferguson v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• When character evidence is not .objected to, its admission is only reviewable as plain error.
• three-hundred-year sentence without possibility of parole for ninety-nine years held within statutory bounds for kidnapping conviction
• right to cross-examination under Davis does not extend to stale convictions of witness
• defendant properly convicted for giving grand jury evasive answers which constituted concealment of evidence
• vagueness challenge reviewed for plain error