United States v. Orville Marrowbone

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• holding that the district court’s admission of hearsay testimony was harmless error because the testimony “did not substantially sway the jury”
• finding that allegations of abuse made three hours after the alleged abuse were not excited utterances because of the lapse of time
• stating that if, after reviewing the record, we determine that an erroneous evidentiary ruling did not influence the jury verdict, then such a ruling did not affect a substantial right of the defendant and is harmless error
• “In other words, we will reverse only if the jury may have been substantially swayed by the improperly admitted evidence.”
• an evidentiary error “does not effect a substantial right and is harmless” if it “did not influence or had only a slight influence on the verdict”
• teenager’s statement that defendant got him drunk and molested him was hearsay not admissible as an excited utterance, but admission of the statement was harmless error

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