United States v. Cirilo Mendoza, United States of America v. Cirilo Mendoza, Martha Wheeler

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3731, the government appeals from two orders entered by the district court suppressing as evidence statements made by defendant Martha Wheeler. The first order granted Wheeler’s motion to suppress evidence on the basis that her statements were involuntary, and the second order precluded the government from using Wheeler’s statement implicating co-defendant Cirilo Mendoza, on the theory that the statement was inadmissible hearsay. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

I. Background

On July 28, 1995, agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration…