Rodriguez-Guerra v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• “[T]he focus of the trustworthiness inquiry is not on the in-court witness, but on the circumstances in which the declarant’s out-of-court statements were made.”
• “Without a clearly contrary opinion of the Supreme Court or of this Court sitting en banc, we cannot overrule a decision of a prior panel of this Court....”
• trial court’s exercise of discretion in giving jury two Allen charges was proper
• upholding exclusion of expert testimony regarding eyewitness reliability