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United States v. Nafis Woods, A/K/A Darnell Bennett
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2003) | 321 F.3d 361; 60 Fed. R. Serv. 561; 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 920; 2003 WL 139774
TL;DR: The court affirmed a carjacking conviction, holding that an FBI agent's testimony tracing a vehicle's origin using a national database was admissible under the hearsay exception for published compilations (Fed.R.Evid. 803(17)) to prove interstate commerce.
Legal Significance: This case establishes that information from a widely relied-upon database, like the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) vehicle database, qualifies as a "published compilation" admissible under Fed.R.Evid. 803(17) due to its necessity and reliability.