United States v. Santos Renan Orellana-Blanco

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• finding that a purported sworn statement was not admissible under Rule 801(d)(2)(A) because, given the “considerable language barrier,” “the foundation was inadequate to demonstrate that [the defendant] really did make the statements” at issue
• “When public records are used against a defendant in a criminal prosecution, the public records exception is the exclusive applicable hearsay exception.”
• “When public records are used against a defendant in a criminal prosecution, the public records exception is the exclusive applicable hearsay exception.”
• “Just as marriages for money, hardly a novelty, or marriages among princes and princesses for reasons of state may be genuine and not sham marriages, so may marriages for green cards be genuine.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).