United States v. Guy J. Westmoreland

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “jailhouse confessions to cellmates are also trustworthy and admissible under Rule 804(b)(3)”
• finding defendant’s statements to his son and to his cell-mate met Lilly’s requirement of particularized guarantee of trustworthiness
• “The admission of hearsay statements under the Confrontation Clause is reviewed de novo.”
• “We will find that an error [seriously affects the fairness, integrity, or public reputation] of judicial proceedings when an issue is closely contested and sup- ported by conflicting evidence.”
• confessions to cellmates meet “requirement that ‘particularized guarantees of trustworthiness’ be present”
• considering trial evidence in holding that substantial rights affected

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).