Harold Shasteen, James Shasteen and Dan Shasteen v. Howard W. Saver, Director of Southern Illinois Community Correctional Center

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• \'Mere inconsistencies in testimony by government witnesses do not establish the government's knowing use of false testimony.'\
• for perjured testimony to violate due process, the defendant must show “a reasonable likelihood that the false testimony could have affected the judgment of the jury”
• The purpose of Rule 10(e) is to ensure that the court on appeal has a complete record of the proceedings leading to the ruling appealed from[.]”
• “[T]he purpose of Rule 10(e) is to ensure that the court on appeal has a complete record of the proceedings leading to the ruling appealed from, not to facilitate col lateral attacks .on the verdict.”
• “[T]he purpose of Rule 10(e) is to ensure that the court on appeal has a complete record of the proceedings leading to the ruling ap- pealed from, not to facilitate collateral attacks on the ver- dict.”
• “[w]hen the defendant argues that the government allegedly used perjured testimony, to warrant setting the verdict aside and ordering a new trial, the defendant must establish,” among other things, that “the prosecution knew or should have known of the perjury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).