Legal Opinion
United States v. Gustavo Valdez-Soto, United States of America v. Fabio Gomez-Tello
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 10, 1994No. 91-10622, 91-10623PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge KOZINSKI; Dissent by Judge ZILLY.
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.
There may be no loyalty among thieves, but there sometimes is among drug dealers. When called by the government, such witnesses occasionally change their story. The principal issue raised in these consolidated appeals is whether and when their inculpato-ry out-of-court statements may be admitted in the teeth of a hearsay objection.
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Some days nothing goes right. The seller, Roberto Cortez, showed up in a restaurant parking lot with nine kilograms of cocaine just as he’d promised, only to discover that his buyer, Dennis…
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