United States v. Slough

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he defendant bears the burden of laying ‘a firm foundation resting on more than suspicion that proffered evidence was tainted by exposure to immunized testimony.”
• “Moreover, a witness’s testimony need not have any exterior antecedent, i.e., any precursor other than the witness’s perceptions of what happened.”
• “Indeed, when armed guards shoot a number of people in a crowd, it doesn’t take Hercule Poirot to start wondering what the crowd was doing.”
• “[T]he defendant bears the burden of laying ‘a firm foundation resting on more than suspicion that proffered evidence was tainted by exposure to immunized testimony.’ ”
• reversing and remanding “as to four of the defendants”
• reversing and remanding “as to four of the defendants”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).