Curtis E. Crawford v. Patricia A. Jackson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a police report was sufficiently reliable for use at parole-revocation hearing in part because it was “quite detailed, an indicia of reliability,” as it provided “a fairly full account of the circumstances surrounding” the disputed facts
• explaining that to the extent a police report may contain multiple layers of hearsay, its reliability is particularly suspect
• explaining that “the appropriate defendant in a habeas action is the custodian of the prisoner,” who in that case was “the warden of Lorton, over whom we have jurisdiction” (citations omitted)
• expressing concern about the “dangers of relying on uncorroborated police reports” in parole revocation proceedings
• finding important that “despite the obvious incentive to present supporting evidence, [the defendant] did not call any witness or present evidence other than his own- testimony to support his version of events”
• noting, in the parole revocation context, that “police statements are less reliable to the extent that they . . . contain multiple layers of hearsay” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).