United States v. Keith Jordan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Rule 32.1(b)(2)(C) \requires a district court in a revocation hearing explicitly to balance the defendant's constitutional interest in confrontation and cross- examination against the government's stated reasons for denying them\
• joining this Court in adopting a balancing test for hearsay evidence in revocation hearings
• analyzing the government’s harmless error argument after deciding that an error occurred
• “We cannot simply assume that any police report . . . is reliable without more information or corroborating evidence.” (emphasis added)
• “[A] revocation hearing is not a trial, so the defendant’s interests are less compelling than for someone still presumed innocent.”
• “[A] revocation hearing is not a trial, so the defendant’s interests are less compelling than for someone still presumed innocent.”

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