United States v. Joseph E. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• noting that PD-251 was admissible as a business record but only to impeach the declarant’s trial testimony, not as substantive evidence of the declarant’s statement of the facts recorded in the police report
• discussing the generally accepted “litigation records” doctrine that would “deny the business records exception to any document prepared with an eye toward litigation when offered by the party responsible for making the record.”
• discussing the generally accepted “litigation records” doctrine that would “deny the business records exception to any document prepared with an eye toward litigation when offered by the party responsible for making the record.”
• discussing the generally accepted \litigation records\ doctrine that would \deny the business records exception to any document prepared with an eye toward litigation when offered by the party responsible for making the record.\
• Hearsay within a police report not admissible unless it falls within another hearsay exception.
• text of prior inconsistent statement in police report shown to witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).