United States v. Singer
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
687 F.2d 1135 (1983)
Relevant factsFree
At the drug trial of Joseph Sazenski and Arturo Izquierdo (defendants), the government introduced an envelope the landlord had mailed to Sazenski and to Carlos Almaden, an alias used by Izquierdo, at the residence where Sazenski was known to live, offering it to show that Izquierdo, under his alias, also lived there. Sazenski appealed his conviction, arguing the letter was inadmissible hearsay.
IssueFree
Whether a landlord's letter, mailed to two names at one address and offered to show the landlord's belief that both people resided there rather than to directly prove that fact, constitutes hearsay under the rule defining a statement as an assertion.