United States v. Altedias Maurice Campbell

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• finding no prosecutorial vindictiveness if the prosecutor’s decision is based on some objective reason other than to punish the defendant for exercising his legal rights
• noting there can be no prose-cutorial vindictiveness if the prosecutor’s decision was based on some objective reason other than to punish the defendant for exercising his legal rights
• “A presumption does not arise just because action detrimental to the defendant was taken after the exercise of the defendant’s legal rights; the context must also present a reasonable likelihood of vindictiveness.”
• “A presumption does not arise just because action detrimental to the defendant was taken after the exercise of the defendant’s legal rights; the context must also present a reasonable likelihood of vindictiveness.”
• “There can be no prosecutorial vindictiveness if the prosecutor revised the charge because of newly discovered evidence or some objective reason other than to punish the defendant for exercising his legal rights.”
• “An example of objective evidence of a vindictive motive would be a prosecutor’s statement that he or she is bringing a new charge in order to dissuade the defendant from exercising his or her legal rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).