Commonwealth v. Liebman

How courts have described this case

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

• State prosecutor required to obtain exculpatory Federal grand jury minutes of two key prosecution witnesses
• “The introduction of two sovereign-ties creates a potentiality for unfairness” that can be avoided by assimilation of State and Federal proceedings
• “... we think that cooperation between the State and Federal prosecutors is and should be common enough so that the burden of securing Federal cooperation should be placed on the State prosecutor rather than the defendant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).