Opinion ID: 789452
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Heading: The Proffer Statements Offered in Evidence

Text: 27 Elizabeth O'Connor, a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, testified at trial to statements made by Johnson at the various proffer sessions. 5 She stated that Johnson disclosed that [i]n early 2001 he returned to New York from North Carolina and began selling narcotics in the vicinity of 214 Schaffer [sic]. Id. at 174. 6 Johnson reported that [i]nitially, he sold heroin, but because crack was more profitable, he soon started selling that drug. Id. Johnson explained that, for a time, he and Leotha Barrow sold crack together, but because his sales exceeded Barrow's, Johnson decided to operate on his own. Agent O'Connor testified that Johnson blamed Barrow for his arrest because there was one occasion where [authorities] sent an informant to purchase crack from Barrow, Barrow didn't have any, Barrow directed the [informant] to go to the defendant and the [informant] did that and purchased crack cocaine. Id. Agent O'Connor further stated that, in the course of the debriefings, Johnson admitted that his nickname was 50 Cal and identified the informant to whom he sold drugs as Carvin Skidmore. Id. at 174-75. At no point in the debriefings did Johnson mention the name Jamal Barrow, nor did he ever tell authorities that they had the wrong man. Id. at 174-76.