Rosalyn Small v. Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority

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• concluding that reversal was not clearly futile because the error's harmlessness was debatable
• explaining that for the government to enter a witness’s videotaped deposition into evidence under § 1324(d), it must comply with the Confrontation Clause’s mandate to make good-faith efforts to produce the witness
• “If any party in federal litigation is in a superior position to raise harmless error, it is the United States of America, the most long-standing and frequent litigant in our federal courts.”
• “[A] correct definition of ‘reckless disregard,’ consistent with Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit law, would include ‘the defendant’s dis- regard of a risk of harm of which the defendant is aware.’” (alterations in orig- inal omitted
• “[A]n error is preserved when the substance of the objection was ‘patently’ clear, even if defense counsel did not use the precise terms used on appeal.” (quoting United States v. Ward, 747 F.3d 1184, 1189 (9th Cir. 2014))

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