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· 8/4/2011

United States v. Espinoza-Baza

Citations

  • 647 F.3d 1182
  • 11 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 9823
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 16101

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that no jury instruction required when “the trial record contains nothing more than a mere scintilla of evidence of derivative citizenship”
  • giving substantial deference to the district court’s Rule 403 rulings, “unless it ‘lies beyond the pale of reasonable justification under the circumstances’” (quoting United States v. Pineda-Doval, 614 F.3d 1019, 1035 (9th Cir. 2010))
  • “district court has discretion to exclude 2 even relevant evidence” under Rule 403

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Judges: Wallace, Noonan, Silverman

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