United States v. Jose Jimenez Lopez

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• affirming documents’ admission when defendant did not raise any hearsay objection to officer’s testimony concerning a document’s chain of custody
• vacating and remanding when the trial court had failed to consider the documents at issue, which amounted to a failure to exercise its discretion properly
• authenticating witness “testified that he personally requested exhibit 3 and received it via a California border patrol agent who [the witness] said 11 Case: 24-10243 Document: 88-1 Page: 12 Date Filed: 08/08/2025 No. 24-10243 procured it from the magistrate’s court”
• testimony of special agent as to his knowledge of a document’s chain of custody was “circumstantial evidence to support the conclusion that the document was an official record”
• a conviction of illegal entry was not admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 902 when the document “was not under seal and no public officer of the [issuing] court certified under seal that the document was genuine”

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