Legal Opinion
United States v. Burgos
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 22, 2008No. 06-4091PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for illegal reentry into the United States following deportation. See 8 U.S.C. § 1326. It presents the question, under the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause, whether the government may use at trial the contents of the defendant’s alien-registration file (his “A-file”) — specifically, a warrant of deportation and a “certificate of nonexistence of record” — to prove its case. We conclude that these A-file records are nontestimonial business records not subject to the requirements of the Confrontation Clause under Crawford v.…
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