Legal Opinion
United States v. Juan Reyes, United States of America v. Samuel M. Burton
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 14, 2004No. 03-1765, 03-1939PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Operation Cocaine Cowboys was an undercover investigation into a large drug conspiracy. After hearing evidence arising from that investigation, a jury convicted Samuel Burton and Juan Reyes (the defendants) of several drug-related crimes. This appeal’s principal issue involves a co-conspirator’s out-of-court statements that implicated the defendants. In essence, both defendants complain that introducing these statements through government agents violated their Confrontation Clause rights because when the defendants tried to call the co-conspirator as a witness, he invoked…
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