United States v. Fred S. Pang

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “evidence of belated tax payments, made while awaiting prosecution, is irrelevant”
• “Even if we find error, we will only reverse if an erroneous evidentiary ruling ‘more likely than not affected the verdict.’ ”
• “Checks fall squarely in [the] category of legally-operative verbal acts that are not barred by the hearsay rule.”
• “As a negotiable instrument, a check is a species of commercial paper, and therefore self-authenticating.”
• “[A] check is a species of commercial paper, and therefore self-authenticating” (citing Fed. R. Evid. 902(9))
• “Even if we find error, we will only reverse if an erroneous evidentiary ruling more likely than not affected the verdict.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).