United States v. Alberto Orlandez-Gamboa, AKA "Caracol," AKA "Chiriqui,"

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order of the federal district court for the Southern District of New York (Griesa, J.) declaring inadmissible statements made by Defendant-Appellee Alberto Orlandez-Gamboa to Colombian prosecutors. 1 The signed statements at issue were made by Gamboa in the course of the Colombian equivalent of plea negotiations with respect to Gamboa’s alleged drug trafficking. We are asked whether admission of this evidence is barred by Federal Rule of Evidence 410(4), as the district court held, or, in the alternative by the Fifth Amendment.…