United States v. Keith H. Blake

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• holding that when the only relevance of an informant’s out-of-court statement is “to show the defendant committed the act he has been charged with, the statement is not properly admissible for a non- hearsay purpose”
• holding evidentiary rulings are subject to harmless error analysis
• considering evidence of four prior felony convictions along with other errors in reversing conviction
• “Where the only possible relevance of the out-of-court statement is to show the defendant committed the act he has been charged with, the statement is not properly admissible for a non-hearsay purpose.” (citing United States v. Azure, 845 F.2d 1503, 1507 (8th Cir. 1988))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).