Allen v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that, in the absence of a statutory or constitutional violation or other illegal conduct, “the only way” to exercise super- visory powers to dismiss is “if the defendant could demonstrate governmental misconduct of the most shocking and outrageous kind”
• excluding a statement 26 contained in a psychologist’s report about the defendant’s illiteracy because it was not made for the purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment and therefore defendant had no special 27 incentive to be truthful
• “a defect in the chain of custody goes to the weight, not the admissibility, of the evidence introduced”
• defendant’s objection—that forensic expert’s finding that hairs at crime scene were consistent with defendant’s did not prove defendant was the only person who could have left the hairs—went to weight, not admissibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).