Legal Opinion
United States v. Thomas York
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 7, 1988No. 87-1714PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Fourteen-year-old Tommy York’s statements incriminating his father, the defendant-appellant Thomas York, were testified to at trial, not by Tommy, but by Tommy’s probation officer. Those statements, which concerned events Tommy allegedly observed when he was nine, were made by Tommy five years later at an interview not under oath and of which no record was made. Besides Tommy, only an Assistant United States Attorney and the probation officer were present at the interview. The district court admitted these hearsay statements at his father’s trial pursuant…
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