Legal Opinion
United States v. Leon-Reyes
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 20, 1999No. Nos. 97-10139, 97-10215PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TROTT, Circuit Judge:
Francisco J. Leon-Reyes (“Leon-Reyes”) appeals his conviction for seven counts of perjury in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623. His first claim is that the district court erred in admitting into evidence, under Rule 1006 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, summaries of testimony from a previous trial in which he allegedly testified falsely. The court restricted the jury’s consideration of these summaries to the issue of whether Leon-Reyes’s allegedly false testimony was material. Leon-Reyes also claims that the prosecutor’s closing argument vouched for the prosecution’s own…
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