United States v. Eagle

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that an eight-year old boy who had been sexually assaulted “experienced mental, emotional, and physical problems[,] ,.. and also experienced encopresis, or involuntary defecation.”
• explaining that an eight- year-old boy who had been sexually assaulted “experienced mental, emotional, and physical problems. . . . began feeling sad and unhappy and also experienced encopresis, or involuntary defecation”
• asserting “district court’s instruction that closing arguments are not evidence is a curative action that serves to alleviate any risk of prejudicial impact”
• affirming district court’s admission of hearsay testimony because questioning during cross- examination “opened the door”
• affirming district court’s admission of hearsay testimony because questioning during cross-examination “opened the door”
• “A prosecutor must limit the closing argument to the evidence and the reasonable inferences that may be drawn from it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).