Explaining that the deferential standard of review is appropriate because the "[the ALJ] ... sees the witnesses and hears them testify, while the Board and the reviewing court look only at cold records"
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Holding that "[t]here can be no question that a person `endeavors' to obstruct justice when he arranges to have a prospective government witness murdered."
Holding that witness demeanor may persuade a jury to "assume the truth of what he denied," but a court cannot allow a case to go to the jury on such evidence
Concluding that a conviction for possessing marijuana should not be used to convict the defendant for distribution of cocaine because it has "little probative value . . . to prove any of the purposes listed in Rule 404(b)"