United States v. Gonzalez-Montoya

How courts have described this case

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• noting that an alleged coconspirator, turned 29 cooperating witness, was “a material witness whose credibility, or lack thereof, played a critical role in the determination of [the defendant’s] guilt or innocence”
• reviewing for plain error when defense counsel objected to statements in closing argument on different ground from what was argued on appeal
• reiterating “our strong preference” for James hearings when the prosecution relies on coconspirator statements
• “We generally do not reverse a conviction if the conduct that the defendant challenges was merely singular and isolated.”
• same, where defendant refused to “confess[ ] guilt”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).