Mealey's (March 4, 2019, 12:30 PM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 27 affirmed a federal judge in Virginia’s decision to admit hearsay statements provided by a deceased woman’s mother and an insurance investigator during a trial against a woman who was later convicted for changing the beneficiary information on her friend’s life insurance policy, finding that the judge properly applied the residual hearsay exception (United States v. Semyya Cunningham, No. 18-4664, 4th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 5880)....