If a prosecutor instructs a grand jury to consider hearsay testimony, can the jury be misled about the hearsay nature of the evidence they are considering?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from United States v. Restrepo, No. 12-2246-cr (2nd Cir. 2013):
If the prosecutor provides an adequate instruction regarding the hearsay testimony, jurors should not be misled about the quality of the evidence they are receiving. In United States v. Ruggiero, we held that where the government fully informed grand jurors about the hearsay nature of the evidence they were considering,
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