Standefer v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a “not guilty” verdict does not estop the Government in a subsequent civil case because, inter alia, “the prosecution’s discovery rights in criminal cases are limited”
• holding that an aider and abettor can be convicted of a charge even if the principal is acquitted
• holding that nonmutual collateral es-toppel was not applicable in criminal context so as to preclude prosecution of an aider and abettor where a jury had already acquitted the principal
• holding that a “not guilty” verdict does not estop the Government in a subsequent civil case because, inter alia, “the prosecution’s discovery rights in criminal cases are limited”
• holding that the civil rule of non-mutual collateral estoppel could not be asserted against the government by a defendant accused of aiding and abetting a person who had been acquitted earlier in a jury trial
• holding that nonmutual collateral estoppel was not applicable in criminal context so as to preclude prosecution of an aider and abettor where a jury had already acquitted the principal

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