United States v. Stuckey

Charles Lavell Hardy appeals from a final judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (crack cocaine) and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine. See United States v. Hardy, No. CR98-275(1) (D. Minn. Dec. 2, 1999) (hereinafter "judgment"). For reversal, Hardy argues that the district court abused its discretion in (1) quashing his Fed. R. Crim. P. 17(c) subpoena for internal police communications and (2) admitting Fed. R. Evid. 404(b) evidence of his 1992 and 1994 state drug convictions. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm the judgment of the district court.