Supreme Court· 6/3/1974

Anderson v. United States

Citations

417 U.S. 211
94 S. Ct. 2253
41 L. Ed. 2d 20
1974 U.S. LEXIS 63

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holding that “conspiracies are not to be made out by piling inference upon inference, thus fashioning ... a dragnet to draw in all substantive crimes”
holding that the purpose to violate federal law may be a secondary purpose, not necessarily primary
holding that statements were not hearsay when admitted “to establish a foundation for later showing, through other admissible evidence, that they were false”
holding that prior trial testimony is not admissible to prove the truth of the matter asserted
ruling that Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 requires a defendant to object to the action of a trial court in order to preserve the alleged error for appellate review
concluding that statements were not hearsay when “the point of the prosecutor’s introducing [the] statements was simply to prove that the statements were made so as to establish a foundation for later showing, through other admissible evidence, that they were false.”

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Judges: Marshall, Burger, White, Stewart, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, Douglas, Brennan

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