So women testified he raped them but since it had not been proven, it was hearsay? Judge shouldn’t have let them testify. This seems familiar but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
It wasn’t hearsay but it was uncharged character evidence which is generally not considered relevant under most rules of evidence and thus inadmissible.
Women testified against him who were not in the charges
That was the grounds for overturning
A just ruling in my opinion
I have a friend who experienced similar collaborative testimony on a pot case which resulted in sentencing jumping from 60 months to 240 months
It was overturned
He was released from Jesup FCI after 7 years when the ruling came down
Essentially a deckhand testified he overheard him agreeing he’d take 2000 ponds a trip which bumped his guidelines up to 24,000 pounds
But he was caught with 1200
Prosecutors have their tricks