United States Second Circuit

Fed. R. Evid. 804(b)(6), which prohibits a defendant accused of killing a witness from making a hearsay objection to dead a witness' statements, is not limited to the witness' testimony to past events or offenses the witness would have testified about had he been available.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/21/2001
• Published 03/21/2001

Judges

• MESKILL, Circuit Judge:, Before MESKILL, CALABRESI and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan M. Dershowitz, Cambridge, MA, (Victoria B. Eiger, Nathan Z. Dershowitz, Dershowitz, Eiger & Adelson, New York City, of counsel), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Benton J. Campbell, Ronald White, Assistant United States Attorneys, Eastern District of New York, (Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney, Peter A. Norling, David C. James, Assistant United States Attorneys, Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, of counsel), for Appellee.