United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's convictions for conspiracy to transport aliens who unlawfully came to or entered the United States and for transporting such aliens for private financial private gain, is affirmed, where: 1) the admission of forms filled out by Border Patrol agents in the field, which included statements by the smuggled aliens that they were in the United States illegally, did not violate the Confrontation Clause; but 2) that the aliens' admissions included in the forms were inadmissible hearsay, as they do not qualify as business records or public records; but 3) the error was harmless because the erroneously admitted hearsay did not materially affect the verdict.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/02/2013
• Published 07/02/2013

Judges

• IKUTA

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

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