Buck Leon Hammers v. United States
DueProcess Privacy
Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly found sufficient evidence for Mr. Hammers to be convicted of conspiracy based solely upon inferences from his executive position and association
question presented is: Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly found, failing to apply this Court’s authority and contrary to other courts of appeals and other of its own prior decisions, sufficient evidence for Mr. Hammers to be convicted of conspiracy based solely upon inferences the jury could have drawn from his executive position at the school and his association with Keeling. 2. Days after the FBI executed a search warrant at the school, Keeling committed suicide. Before doing so, she left a note in which she stated: “I Pam Keeling take full responsibility for everything at Grant School. No vendor nor Mr. Hammers had anything to do with what happened. I am truly sorry and pray for forgiveness.” (hereafter, the “Note”). The Note was excluded from evidence at trial as hearsay. The second question presented is: Whether the Tenth Circuit’s decision to exclude the Note was contrary to Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 US. 284, 302 (1973) and its progeny in that it never gave any consideration to the exculpatory nature of the Note in its evidentiary analysis. (i)