United States v. Michael J. Guinan

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• stating that one of the factors in the 804(b)(5) analysis is whether the hearsay declarant had “a motive to lie that calls the trustworthiness of her statements into question”
• under the circumstances there was no need to independently corroborate every detail of the hearsay statement.
• “the proponent [seeking to introduce evidence under 804(b)(5)] will always be relying on ‘a little more’ than is independently corroborated”
• guarantees of trustworthiness include fact that testimony was voluntarily given under oath and was substantially corroborated by other independent evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).