United States v. Larry F. Jones

How courts have described this case

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• finding defendant was not compelled to testify where he could have “chosen to attack the government’s case by offering the testimony of other individuals”
• upholding a district court’s finding of good cause to not have a victim of domestic assault testify when the defendant’s “history of violent conduct made reprisal against [the victim] a possibility”
• upholding a district court’s finding of good cause to not have victims of domestic assault testify when the defendant’s “history of violent conduct made reprisal against [the victims] a possibility”
• “[S]tatements [admitted under the present sense impression exception] are considered to be trustworthy because the contemporaneity of the event and its description limits the possibility for intentional deception or failure of memory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).