United States v. Luis P. Costa, Jose M. Barros, Carlos D. Bicho

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a statement is not hearsay where “[t]he government offered the statement not for its truth ... but rather to show its falsity”
• “The government offered the statement not for its truth, . . . but rather to show its falsity. By showing, through the introduction of other evidence, that Costa lied to his interrogators, the government sought to create an inference of Costa’s guilt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).