191555P.pdf   01/11/2021  United States  v.  Crystal Earth
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1555
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Pierre   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Shepherd, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Challenges to the admission of statements 
   defendant alleged were inadmissible hearsay rejected as the statements 
   were either not admitted for the truth of the matter asserted or were 
   admissible under various exceptions to the hearsay rule; while statements 
   the victim made at the hospital were not admissible under any of the 
   exceptions and were admitted for the truth of the matters asserted, the 
   admission of the evidence was harmless in the light of all of the other 
   evidence in the case; the district court did not err in rejecting 
   defendant's proposed self-defense instruction and giving the 8th Cir. 
   Model Jury Instruction on self-defense; the evidence was sufficient to 
   support defendant's conviction for assault with a dangerous weapon.