Cesar Solis-Flores v. Merrick Garland

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How courts have described this case

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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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