United States First Circuit

When prior consistent statements are offered not for their truth but to buttress the credibility of a witness previously impeached with prior inconsistent statements, Fed. R. Evid. 801 does not apply and the statements may be admissible.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/19/2001
• Published 01/19/2001

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan M. Dershowitz, with whom Victoria B. Eiger and Dershowitz, Eiger & Adelson, P.C., were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael E. Karam, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, with whom Paula M. Junghans, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, Robert E. Lindsay and Alan Hechtkopf, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, were on brief, for appellee.