United States v. Adegboyega Akitoye

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a defendant exercised control over another person by \retain[ing] dominion\ over the drugs that person sold
• affirming district court’s enhancement based on belief that defendant perjured himself during trial by testifying to “‘cock and bull story’”
• advising district courts facing similar requests to consider the scope of the jury's request; what obstacles, if any, would impair the request's fulfillment; and the amount of time the desired action would take
• “ ‘committing ... perjury’ or ‘testifying untruthfully ... concerning a material fact’ can trigger an upward adjustment under the guidelines”
• where testimony is fresh in jury’s mind there is less of a need for rereading
• “it is not the place of one witness to draw conclusions about, or cast aspersions upon, another witness’ veracity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).