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· 6/12/2003

United States v. Albert Curry

Citations

  • 328 F.3d 970
  • 2003 WL 21003712

How courts have described this case

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

  • granting defendant’s mid-trial motion for mistrial during the post-trial proceedings and allowing retrial despite a prosecutor’s Brady violations and improper comments during closing arguments
  • upholding District Court’s denial of motion for evidentiary hearing and noting that, because District Court “had heard the trial and was familiar with the objective facts and circumstances of the case, a hearing was not necessary”
  • “When a defendant moves for mistrial, the doctrine does not bar retrial unless the prosecutor intentionally engaged in conduct designed to provoke the defendant’s motion.”
  • no intent found when prosecutor made improper remarks during closing arguments

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Wollman, Arnold, Melloy

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