United States v. Oscar Rosa, Vincent Lopez, Ricardo Rodriguez, Hector Hernandez, and Armando Velasquez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the employees of the Medical Examiner’s Office are “physicians and pathologists,” not “attorneys” and that autopsy reports are business records
• holding evidence insufficient to support conviction for attempt to distribute heroin in absence of proof that defendant ever “produee[d] any heroin” or reached agreement with heroin supplier to acquire heroin for planned distribution
• holding evidence insufficient to support conviction for attempt to distribute heroin in absence of proof that defendant ever \produce[d] any heroin\ or reached agreement with heroin supplier to acquire heroin for planned distribution
• noting that a district court having doubts about a magistrate’s credibility findings should hear testimony from witness in question
• finding that court must state reasons only when guideline range spans more than twenty-four months
• holding an “array of six not so small as to be impermissibly suggestive”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).