Is Warren's out-of-court statement of intent to kill admissible at trial?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Warren, 25 F.3d 890 (9th Cir. 1994):
Warren maintains that the statements were as probative of an intent to fight as they were of an intent to kill. This objection goes to the weight of the statements, not their admissibility. A defendant's "own out-of-court admissions ... surmount all objections based on the hearsay rule ... and [are] admissible for whatever inferences the trial judge [can] reasonably draw." United States v. Matlock, 415 U.S. 164, 172, 94 S.Ct. 988, 994, 39 L.Ed.2d 242 (1974).
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