United States v. Derrick Forrester

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that there was no cause where defendant “la[id] the blame at the door of trial 2 counsel whose competence he says he questioned”
• requiring a new trial where the district court admitted unfairly prejudicial hearsay statements
• prejudice where out-of-court statement by “knowledgeable speaker” with “no apparent motive to lie”
• “[a]s a matter of law, ‘[t]he credibility of witnesses is exclusively for the determination by the jury, and witnesses may not opine as to the credibility of the testimony of other witnesses at the trial’ ”
• “[A]n application of the rules concerning hearsay is reviewed for the abuse of discretion.”
• “[A]n application of the rules concerning hearsay is reviewed for the abuse of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).