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Eighth Circuit· 7/3/2006

United States v. Mike Chase

Citations

  • 451 F.3d 474
  • 36 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 681
  • 70 Fed. R. Serv. 635
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 16678
  • 2006 WL 1805974

How courts have described this case

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

  • affirming a district court's exclusion of Rule 404 state of mind evidence under Rule 403
  • affirming a four-level upward variance and deeming the sentence \not extraordinary\
  • “For [the defendant] to be convicted of voluntary manslaughter, the government had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that [the defendant]: (1) voluntarily, intentionally, and unlawfully killed [the victim]; (2
  • “A statement tending to expose the declarant to criminal liability and offered to exculpate the accused is not admissible ... ‘unless corroborating circumstances clearly indicate the trustworthiness of the statement.’ ”
  • “Although this departure is most often imposed for exceptionally egregious behavior, we affirmed a §5K2.8 departure in a case in which the defendant had a history of domestic abuse and failed to seek prompt medical attention for the victim.”

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Judges: Loken, Wollman, Riley

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Cites

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Other cases named United States v. Mike Chase

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