Law Offices of Hafif v. United States
Law Offices of Herbert Hafif v. United States
Law Offices of Hafif v. United States, 520 U.S. 1252 (1997)
Opinion of the Court
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.
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(“When the trial court concludes, on substantial evidence, that [a witness’s] professed lapses of memory are false, evasive devices to avoid truthful answers, it may admit, as ‘inconsistent,’ the witness’s prior statements describing the events the witness now claims to have forgotten.”)
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