State v. Dowsett

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court “must consider whether less severe measures would rectify prejudice caused to [a] defendant” by a prosecutor’s violation of a rule of penal procedure prior to dismissing the case
• holding that a court \must consider whether less severe measures would rectify prejudice caused to [a] defendant\ by a prosecutor's violation of a rule of penal procedure prior to dismissing the case
• “Faithful adherence to discovery obligations serves the public interest: Discovery provides the basic information which is necessary to expedite trials . . . .”
• “We hold, therefore, that before the court orders dismissal of a case because of the State’s violation of HRPP Rule 16, it must consider whether less severe measures would rectify prejudice caused to the defendant by the violation.”
• \Defendant complains that in `case after case reversed by the appellate courts ... no action is ever taken against the offending prosecutors.' He relates that the effect of reversal is that the State `gets to retry the accused.'\ (Brackets omitted.)
• “Defendant complains that in ‘case after case reversed by the appellate courts ... no action is ever taken against the offending prosecutors.’ He relates that the effect of reversal is that the State ‘gets to retry the accused.’ ” (Brackets omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).