The plaintiff, Adam Samia, was sentenced to life in prison plus 10 years after his conviction, along with two co-defendants, in a 2018 trial involving a murder-for-hire scheme. During the trial, the judge allowed the jury to hear about the post-arrest confession of one of the other defendants who said he had been driving a van when Mr. Samia had shot the woman in it. The judge allowed a federal agent to describe that confession on the witness stand on the condition that phrases like “another person” be substituted for Mr. Samia’s name. The judge also instructed the jury to consider the account of the confession as admissible as evidence only against the defendant who had made it. After all three of the defendants were convicted, Mr. Samia appealed.

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Persons: Adam Samia, Samia, ” Locations: Philippines