James W. Wheeler 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.

• concluding that the defendant threatened to contact the witness’s family and employer to provide damaging information about the witness, thus interfering with the integrity of the system
• recognizing trial courts’ inherent authority to protect witnesses
• “By protecting the witness after trial, the court is encouraging that witness, and other potential witnesses, to come forward and provide information helpful to the implementation of justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).