United States v. Chan

MEMORANDUM ORDER

LEISURE, District Judge.

The government charges the defendant Alexander Chan with five counts involving narcotics related offenses, one count of which charges Chan with a conspiracy to possess and distribute heroin. The government moves, in limine, to introduce portions of the guilty plea allocutions of three of the defendant’s alleged co-conspirators, Kin Man Hui, Gerry Eng, and Ting To Kaw, in order to prove the existence of a conspiracy, arguing that these redacted allocutions are statements against interest under Rule 804(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Evidence, and thus…