United States v. Juan Octavio Pena Gonzalez

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• holding that defendant had sufficiently explained basis for hearsay exception to trial judge to preserve it for review
• holding that error in excluding corroborating evidence was not reversible because defendant presented his story to the jury
• stating that a prior consistent statement of the defendant's wife should have been admitted \in anticipation of the government's inevitable attack on his own testimony\
• jury instructed that it could convict Gonzales if he “knew that there was some controlled substance in the car, whether or not he knew it was actually heroin or some other drug or narcotic”
• no plain error where court instructed jury as counsel requested

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).