MERRITT, Chief Judge.
Two of the government's witnesses in this drug prosecution, Cesar Barraza and Edeardo Osorio, testified before the grand jury but refused to testify at trial. Over defendant's objection, the district court allowed the uncross-examined grand jury testimony of these two alleged co-conspirators to be read into evidence pursuant to Fed.R.Evid. 804(b)(5), one of the residual exceptions to the hearsay rule. In light of the Supreme Court's recent rulings...
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