United States v. Amber Wise

Type

Opinion

Author

John Kenneth Bush

Filed

Nov. 25, 2025

Case

United States v. Amber Wise

Case status

Decided

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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0545n.06 No. 24-5024 FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Nov 25, 2025 FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) Plaintiff-Appellee, ON APPEAL FROM THE ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT ) v. COURT FOR THE EASTERN ) DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE ) AMBER WISE, ) OPINION Defendant-Appellant. ) ) Before: MOORE, BUSH, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges. JOHN K. BUSH, Circuit Judge. After a four-day trial, a jury convicted Defendant- Appellant Amber Wise of money laundering and conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl. Wise now seeks to have her conviction vacated based on the admission of two sets of text messages taken from the cell phone of one of Wise’s co-conspirators. We find no reversible error and AFFIRM. I. At Wise’s trial, the jury heard testimony from several members of a drug trafficking conspiracy: Wise herself, Harvey “Mike” Horn, and Breanna Heatherly. Heatherly and Horn were drug dealers, and Wise was their supplier. But they had another connection. Horn was also the father of one of Wise’s children and the current boyfriend of Heatherly. In March 2020, law enforcement began investigating alleged heroin sales in K…

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