Johns

MEMORANDUM *

The district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to sanction the govern- *30 merit as a result of Agent Simon’s advice to Tracy Batorson not to speak with defense counsel. After an evidentiary hearing, the district court concluded that Batorson knew that she could to speak with defense counsel and that Simon’s actions did not “unfairly handicap[ ]” Johns’s ability to put on a defense at trial. See United States v. Cooke, 608 F.2d 1175, 1182 (9th Cir.1979) (en banc).

The district court did not commit reversible error in allowing Batorson to testify that she began using cocaine after she was raped and forced to use cocaine by her assailant. This evidence provided context for her testimony. The district court gave the jury a limiting instruction with respect to this testimony and we must presume that the jury followed this instruction. See United States v. Span, 75 F.3d 1383, 1390 (9th Cir.1996).

Johns’s conviction for use of a firearm must be reversed in light of Bailey v. United States, 516 U.S. 137 , 116 S.Ct. 501 , 133 L.Ed.2d 472 (1995). We remand for the district court to enter a corrected judgment.

We review for plain error whether the district…