Smith v. Law Office of Karen Oakley, L.L.C.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the Fifth and Sixth Amendments form “part of [the Constitution’s] basic ‘fair trial’ guarantee”
• holding that fast-track program does not violate due process even though defendant is required to plead guilty before government has turned over potentially exculpatory information
• holding that the “Constitution does not require the Government to disclose material impeachment evidence prior to entering a plea agreement with a criminal defendant”
• concluding that due process does not require \preguilty plea disclosure of impeachment information\ but suggesting that the analysis may be different with respect to evidence of actual innocence
• holding that the Ninth Circuit properly exercised jurisdiction to address defendant’s constitutional challenge to the district court’s declination to depart downward, although the challenge was ultimately denied
• recognizing that 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a)(1) “does not authorize a defendant to appeal a sentence where the ground for appeal consists of a claim that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to depart”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).