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· 9/25/1997

United States v. Larry F. Singleton, United States of America v. Anthony D. Singleton, United States of America v. Demitress Sanchez Cox

Citations

  • 125 F.3d 1097
  • 47 Fed. R. Serv. 1128
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 26866
  • 1997 WL 592172

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that district court has broad discretion in deciding whether to allow the use of written transcripts to aid the jury in listening to recorded conversations
  • listing “the character of the witness for truthfulness and honesty, and the availability of evidence on the issue” as a factor in determining sufficient guarantees of trustworthiness
  • highlighting “in- dependent, often contemporaneous, police corroboration” of informant’s controlled buys
  • drug dealer indicated that defendant had said not to hand over drugs in front of his home; money was handed over on porch of home but drugs were handed over down the block
  • same where controlled buy took place \in the vicinity\ of the residence
  • cocaine sales in vicinity of residence were sufficient for probable cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Posner, Bauer, Manion

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