· 2/26/1997
United States v. John Henry Turner, Jr.
Citations
- 104 F.3d 217
- 1997 WL 8948
How courts have described this case
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- rejecting the defendant’s unpreserved claim that a treatise that does not satisfy the requirements of FEE 803[18] is admissible under the residual hearsay exception
- if an argument is not raised before the district court, the only standard of review is plain error
- no error in refusing to allow medical text into evidence; party did not offer any testimony to establish the text as authoritative
- witness’s testimony that defendant had sold cocaine base was relevant to intent, motive, and knowledge, concerned similar crimes, and was reasonably close in time to offense charged
- pursuant to learned treatise exception to hearsay rule, “portions of the text may be read only to the extent that it is called to the attention of an expert witness or relied upon by the expert witness in direct examination”
- prosecutor was not \aware of\ evidence in question
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Judges: Arnold, Magill, Longstaff
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