Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs v. Deschutes Cty.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a “bounty”—here, a payment to a cooperator for helping law enforcement catch the defendants—was different than a witness fee
• finding taped conversations that defendants were part did not constitute Brady material “because the defendants, being parties to the conversation, were equally aware” of what was said
• “[A]n expert witness ... may not be paid more if the party for whom he is testifying wins the case.”
• jury can use its common sense to screen out evidence it finds wholly unreliable because of inducements informant received
• “as a device for enforcing nonconstitutional rules,” exclusion is “disfavored”
• “as a device for enforcing nonconstitutional rules,” exclusion is “disfavored”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).