United States v. Kaleena Morales

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• holding that error regarding admissibility of government forms was harmless because “there was sufficient [independent] evidence to demonstrate that the individuals in question were aliens who had unlawfully entered the United States”
• stating that “the exception allowing for a ‘matter observed while under a legal duty to report’ in Rule 803(8
• district court’s error “was harmless because the erroneously admitted hearsay did not materially affect the verdict”
• “In general, statements by third parties who are not government employees ... may not be admitted pursuant to the public records exception but must satisfy some other exception in order to be admitted.”
• “When [the district court] improperly admits hearsay, we may consider that error harmless ‘unless we have grave doubt whether the erroneously admitted evidence substantially affected the verdict.’” (emphasis added) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).