United States v. Richard Ashton Oslund

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• noting that complaint is frivolous if lacks a colorable legal or factual basis 26 for each claim
• noting that the defense can argue about a witness’s reliability when the jury is instructed on factors to consider when weighing the testimony
• recognizing when offense causes bodily harm to victim, restitution must be ordered for medical and therapeutic expenses as well as lost income, and if victim dies, “funeral and related expenses are also included”
• concluding “gaps” that were “periods of the recordings when no voices or conversation can be heard, as when the recording occurred in a bar and ambient or background noise is all that is discernable at times,” were “not enough to render the recordings inadmissible”
• identifying seven nonexclusive factors for determining admissibility of tape-recorded conversations

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