United States ex rel. Petrofsky v. Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall, McCarthy

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• noting that a jury is “the appropriate arbiter of the truth”— that is, “the body best suited for sifting falsehoods from facts.”
• finding no bad faith on the part of the AUSA where the FBI case agent caused the delay in producing discoverable reports
• affirming denial of motion to dismiss on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct because the government’s failure to timely comply with a discovery order was mere “negligence” rather than “bad faith or other willful misconduct”
• defendants failed to show prejudice where they received reports, used them in their defense, and failed to seek a continuance
• “[I]t is within the district court’s reasoned discretion as to what weight to assign each factor.”
• \Simply because there exist[s] inconsistencies between [a witness's] grand jury and trial testimony does not warrant the inference that the government knowingly introduced perjurious testimony.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).