to conspiracy to transport stolen goods and received 38 months' imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release. Sexton testified that in August 2000, he was arrested in Indiana on a warrant for the violation of that supervised release. Sexton further averred that in 1989, he was sentenced to 4 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for escape, and that in 1994 he served 18 months in an Ohio jail on a breaking and entering charge.
Sexton next testified about his relationship with defendant. Sexton stated that he first met defendant in 1995 in the Federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago and that they knew each other for only a few months.[4] Sexton explained, however, that he next saw defendant in 1998 when Sexton was sentenced to 38 months'imprisonment in the federal correction facility in Oxford, Wisconsin. Sexton indicated that for the next four years he and defendant saw each other on a regular basis. Sexton and defendant would walk together in the prison yard, talk, eat lunch and work out together, lifting weights.
Sexton testified that in the spring or summer of 1998, he had an unusual discussion with defendant, "about a girl." Defendant told Sexton that he had just lost his appeal, and Sexton inquired as to why. Defendant then said, "Well, that bitch is still coming back to haunt me after all these years." When Sexton asked defendant what he was talking about, defendant explained that the judge had sentenced him to too much time and went on to say that "they couldn't find