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· 1/16/1998

United States v. Jimale L. Williams

Citations

  • 133 F.3d 1048
  • 48 Fed. R. Serv. 799
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 701
  • 1998 WL 13206

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that FBI agent’s trial testimony about informant’s out-of-court statement was inadmissible hearsay
  • “the officer’s testimony must be limited to the fact that he spoke to an informant without disclosing the substance of that conversation”
  • police officer's \human lie detector\ testimony that defendant avoided eye contact and lowered head while being questioned about a bank robbery was inadmissible opinion testimony
  • admission of a declarant’s statements is permissible so long as the witness’s testimony is “limited to the fact that he spoke to [the declarant] without disclosing the substance of that conversation”

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Judges: Posner, Bauer, Coffey

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