LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge: The appellant, Gilberto Alvarez, was convicted of heroin trafficking charges 1 by the words of a dead man. The decedent’s statements allegedly implicating Alvarez were heard only by Lopez, the prosecution’s principal witness, who had earlier…
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