Fdr Services Corporation of Virginia, Inc. 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.

• holding that prosecutor’s comment on the absence of receipts was warranted by “[d]efense counsel’s suggestion that the defendants were involved in a legitimate business”
• finding that the defendant had not shown bad faith or prosecutorial misconduct
• explaining that the prosecutor did not comment on the defendant’s silence by discussing “the quality (or lack thereof) of the defense’s evidence and the defense’s failure to rebut the necessary inferences created by the government’s case.”
• finding that the defendant had not shown bad faith or prosecutorial misconduct
• defense counsel suggestion that defendants involved in legitimate business invited prosecution rebuttal regarding complete absence of receipts
• conduct not contained in the indictment may be considered at sentencing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).