Kugler v. Helfant

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “ordinarily a pending state prosecution provides the accused a fair and sufficient opportunity for vindication of federal constitutional rights”
• recognizing that “ordinarily a pending state prosecution provides the accused a fair and sufficient opportunity for vindication of federal constitutional rights”
• explaining that a bad faith prosecution “generally means that a prosecution has been brought without a reasonable expectation of obtaining a valid conviction”
• recognizing that the extraordinary circum- stances exception “is a nebulous one”
• noting that an “extraordinary” exception for bad faith would require a prosecution brought “without a reasonable expectation of obtaining a valid conviction”
• noting that “ordinarily a pending state prosecution provides the accused a fair and sufficient opportunity for vindication of federal constitutional rights”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).