United States v. Juanita Kendricks

Juanita Kendricks appeals from her criminal conviction in a jury trial before the Eastern District of Michigan. 1 The primary issue is whether defendant’s right to cross-examine adverse witnesses, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, is violated by the admission of evidence of extrajudicial statements uttered by a non-testifying co-defendant during the commission of an unlawful act. The statements incriminated the defendant. We find this and the other allegations of error to be without merit. Thus, the conviction is affirmed.

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Cynthia Wiley, a government informant since October 1976, had known…