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· 5/15/2024

United States v. Balderas

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that credibility determinations are for the jury
  • no due process violation in sixteen-year delay between date of offense and filing of complaint
  • “The function of weighing the credibility of witnesses is exclusively in the jury’s province ….”
  • \There must be enough evidence in the record to support a conviction on the lesser-included charge before a defendant is entitled to an instruction on the lesser-included offense.\ [Emphasis omitted.]
  • applying United States v. Lovasco, 431 U.S. 783 (1977)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly

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