AMANDA BETH BUTLER v. STATE OF FLORIDA

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• recognizing that whether a statement is \insufficiently corroborated\ is a consideration a district court may account for in determining trustworthiness
• stating that district court’s determination of trustworthiness of hearsay statements must be upheld unless clearly erroneous
• holding third-party suspect’s confession unreliable where it was “clear” that suspect “knew nothing about the specifics of the crime”
• approving of the district court's evaluation of the testimony in a hearing that did not explicitly cite the two Daubert prongs but frequently referenced the decision
• approving of the district court’s evaluation of the testimony in a hearing that did not explicitly cite the two Daubert prongs but frequently referenced the decision
• determining the credibility of witnesses is “generally not an appropriate subject matter for expert testimony be- cause it influences a critical function of the jury”

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