Evidence in criminal trials
Sando v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Sam Sando asked the Supreme Court to review four evidence rulings in his federal case, including decisions about sworn statements, impeachment evidence, and evidence of an unrelated domestic incident.
- Who it affects
- The Supreme Court did not resolve these evidence questions in Sando’s case, and its denial did not endorse either side.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
His filing asks whether the trial judge properly applied the evidence rules to those issues.
The questions concerned how evidence rules apply to sworn statements, witness impeachment and an unrelated domestic incident.
Question presented
Whether the district court properly (1) excluded the admission of sworn deposition statements used to impeach a hearsay declarant, (2) excluded a witness’s prior sworn testimony under Rule 801 when the testimony contained a statement against interest made by another declarant, (3) excluded evidence offered to impeach a government witness because the statement was made during an investigative interview, and (4) admitted evidence of an unrelated domestic incident under Rule 404(b) when the Government failed to identify a permissible non-propensity purpose for the evidence.
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