John A. Betts v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that petitioner must have \acted or failed to act in such a way as to mislead the authorities into thinking he had committed an offense\
• holding that petitioner must have “acted or failed to act in such a. way as to mislead the authorities into thinking he had committed an offense”
• noting that, under a similar federal statute, “[a] certificate of innocence serves no purpose other than to permit its bearer to sue the government for damages”
• finding that prosecution of attorney, who had been convicted of contempt for failing to attend hearing, had not been brought about by his failure to appear
• noting abuse-of-discretion and clear-error standards and reversing clearly erroneous finding that petitioner \brought about his own prosecution through neglect or misconduct\
• granting certificate because “this [is not] a case in which the petitioner’s conduct constituted an offense other than the one for which he was tried and convicted”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).