Rhode Island Truck Ctr v. Daimler Trucks North America

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How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[a] conflict of interest on the part of the prosecution” violates the Due Process Clause of the Virginia Constitution
• holding that a private prosecutor may not have a “civil interest in the case”
• recognizing “[t]he policy arguments advanced by the defendant for a total prohibition of privately employed prosecutors may have a sound basis in considerations of public policy”
• noting private prosecutor represented family of victim' in a child custody suit against the defendant
• private prosecutor who has a civil interest in the case “so infects the prosecution with the possibility that private vengeance has been substituted for impartial application of the criminal law, that prejudice to the defendant need not be shown”
• discussing relevant circumstantial considerations to the issue of identity

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