Opinion ID: 221628
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Nature of the Evidence

Text: The Government asserts that defendant's defense was that his brother Jed sold the guns to Newsom and that the defendant presented testimonial evidence at trial that Guilbeaux lied to authorities about Chad to protect her husband, Jed. The defendant did present evidence that Jed (1) was bald and had tattoos; (2) was the common-law husband of Guilbeaux and that Guilbeaux may have lied to protect him; (3) owned the phone that called Newsom shortly before the sale; (4) owned the car that the white male drove the day of the sale; and (5) had a history of burgling houses. The defendant, however, was unable to present evidence that placed the guns in Jed's actual possession or evidence, that Jed and Guilbeaux told Steve the same story about the guns belonging to Guilbeaux's father, or how Jed decided to call Newsom to arrange a gun sale. Nor was there evidence presented at trial that Jed stated that he might be in trouble because somebody turned some guns in and he might have f ked up. The district court properly found that the evidence is not merely cumulative or impeaching.