U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
United States v. Thomas Weir
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- Type
- Opinion
- Author
- Richard Allen Griffin
- Filed
- Feb. 12, 2025
- Case
- United States v. Thomas Weir
- Case status
- Decided
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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0084n.06 No. 24-5335 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Feb 12, 2025 KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) Plaintiff-Appellant, ) ON APPEAL FROM THE ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT v. ) COURT FOR THE MIDDLE ) DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE THOMAS K. WEIR; WILLIAM L. DONALDSON; ) PAMELA SPIVEY, ) OPINION Defendants-Appellees. ) ) Before: CLAY, GIBBONS, and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges. GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge. Defendants allegedly conspired to recruit patients and distribute medically unnecessary prescription opioids at two pharmacies in rural Tennessee. As a result, a federal grand jury indicted them for various drug-conspiracy and healthcare-fraud charges. Before trial, the district court excluded evidence related to defendant William Donaldson’s prior federal and state convictions involving the distribution and possession of opioids, as well as defendant Pamela Spivey’s prior complaint to the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy detailing allegations of her co-defendants’ unprofessional prescribing practices. The government challenges those evidentiary rulings in this interlocutory appeal. For the following reasons, we affir…
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