United States First Circuit

Although hearsay needs to provide sufficient indicia of reliability before it is admitted at a sentencing hearing, traditional rules of evidence do not apply, and where the hearsay is corroborated by other evidence, it is not inherently unreliable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/05/2001
• Published 10/05/2001

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan R. Saxe, Assistant Federal Public Defender, on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald A. Feith, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Paul M. Gagnon, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellee.