United States v. David Ferguson

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• holding that federal courts “may take notice of proceedings in other courts, both The Fugitive Team eventually discovered that Knight was staying at a residence in Flint. (Id.
• holding that taking judicial notice of state-court proceedings for the first time on appeal is appropriate when the relevant documents—in that case Shepard documents—in those proceedings (1) are of reasonably indisputable accuracy, and (2
• explaining that “[j]udicial notice is only appropriate if ‘the matter [is] beyond reasonable controversy.... The rule proceeds upon the theory that ... dispensing with traditional methods of proof [should only occur] in clear cases.’”
• explaining that “[j]udicial notice is only appropriate if ‘the matter [is] beyond reasonable controversy.... The rule 9 proceeds upon the theory that ... dispensing with traditional methods of proof [should only occur] in clear cases.’”
• taking judicial notice pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 201(b) of adjudicative facts from record of state court criminal proceedings
• finding that judicial records meet the standard for judicial notice

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