United States v. Cristobal Vargas

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• “[A] party cannot use the doctrine of completeness to circumvent Rule 803's exclusion of hearsay testimony.”
• “[A] party cannot use the doctrine of completeness to circumvent Rule 803's exclusion of hearsay testimony.”
• review is de novo where defendant objects to court’s refusal to give theory-of- 12 No. 20-1394 defense instruction
• ex- plaining that testimony about a defendant’s cocaine traffick- ing prior to the period charged in the indictment is not “properly categorized as direct evidence” because it does “not tend to prove the elements of the offense for which [he] was actually charged”

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