United States v. Emenogha
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1 F.3d 473 (1993)
- Written by Sean Carroll, JD
Facts
Gibson Nwafor (defendant) was charged with fraud. To prove its case, the government (plaintiff) alleged that Nwafor conducted a series of small currency transactions at First Commercial Bank (the bank). The government sought to introduce currency-transaction reports from the bank that supported its case theory. Nwafor objected to the introduction of the reports, arguing that they were inadmissible hearsay. The government called the bank’s vice president, Gregory Salm, to testify that it was the bank’s regular practice to identify a person conducting a currency transaction either by driver’s license or by account number. Salm testified that it was the bank’s practice to write these identifying numbers on its currency-transaction reports. The government also called several witnesses from the bank, who testified that they had personally handled some of Nwafor’s transactions.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Ripple, J.)
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