Legal Opinion
United States v. Bernard Watson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 3, 1996No. 94-3892PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
The government appeals the district court’s pre-trial suppression of a number of Bernard Watson’s incriminating written and oral statements. Because we hold that the district court denied the government a fair suppression hearing, we reverse and remand for a new hearing.
Initially, we need to clarify what is not at issue in this appeal. This is not a challenge to the district court’s credibility findings. Instead, the government argues at a more fundamental level, that the district court’s evidentiary rulings denied the government a fair hearing. We agree.
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