FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
In February 1998, a grand jury charged defendant Juan Castelan and three codefendants with various drug crimes. During Castelan's trial, the district court, relying on Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3), allowed the government to introduce over objection the postarrest statements of codefendant Ruben Olivares, who refused to testify as a government witness even after being immunized. A jury found Castelan
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