Bradshaw v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that it is better practice for a court to call its own witnesses “only after both parties have had a reasonable opportunity to develop their case according to their trial strategy”
• explaining that “rare and extreme circumstances” authorize a judge to initiate investigation into matters the parties are unwilling to pursue and that this power “should be limited to eases where the lack of judicial investigation will clearly result in substantial injustice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).