United States v. Leekins

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that Shepard “did not state that police reports were inadmissible as a general matter in sentencing hearings”
• determining that transcribed interviews contained in a police report were sufficiently reliable in part because of their “detail and internal consistency”
• remarking that police reports are 13 neither “inherently reliable” nor “inherently unreliable”
• “The sentencing court had the benefit of observing [Loebsack’s] testimony and it can infer reliability from a witness’s words and actions.”
• “We give great deference to a presiding judge’s credibility determinations . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).