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State Department Cables Ruled Inadmissible Under Public-Records Exception, Fed. R. Evid. 803(8), by Eleventh Circuit

Creating a possible circuit split, the Eleventh Circuit holds in Eloy Rojas Mamani v. Gonzalo Daniel Sanchez De Lozada Sanchez Bustamante, No. 18-12728 (11th Cir. Aug. 8, 2020), that State Department cables containing unattributed observations about conditions in a foreign country are inadmissible hearsay, not covered by the public-records exception of Fed. R. Evid. 803(8).Continue reading “State Department Cables Ruled Inadmissible Under Public-Records Exception, Fed. R. Evid. 803(8), by Eleventh Circuit”