United States v. Dirk D. Jones

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• stating that “a judge may consider otherwise inadmissible evidence in calculating a sentence” provided that the “evidence upon which the judge relies” has “ ‘sufficient indicia of reliability’ ”
• “although a jury may infer facts from other facts derived by inference, ‘ “each link in the chain of inferences must be sufficiently strong to avoid a lapse into speculation.” ’ United States v. Peters, 277 F.3d 963, 967 (7th Cir. 2002

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).