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· 1/30/1986

United States v. Wayne Womochil

Citations

  • 778 F.2d 1311

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding the district court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the government to clarify the false impression created by the defendant on cross- examination
  • allowing the government to introduce otherwise inadmissible hearsay to rebut a false impression caused by defense counsel's elicitation of only part of the hearsay
  • finding no abuse of district court's discretion in allowing \otherwise inadmissible evidence on redirect to clarify the issue\ when opposing counsel had left a false impression after cross-examination
  • allowing the Government to “clarify or complete an issue opened up by defense counsel”
  • no abuse of discretion in allowing government to clarify false impression created on cross-examination

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Judges: Ross, Gibson, Arnold

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