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· 10/26/1981

United States v. Bernard J. Coven and James F. O'COnnOr

Citations

  • 662 F.2d 162
  • 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 16576

How courts have described this case

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

  • mere prosecutorial comment on defendant’s failure to refute the government’s evidence or support his or her own claims is not constitutionally invalid
  • fact that allegedly prejudicial information is learned in a judicial rather than a personal capacity is “relevant” to the analysis of the appearance of impropriety
  • individual has no expectation of privacy in documents given to or accessible by undercover informant
  • individual has no expectation of privacy in documents given to or acces- sible by undercover informant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Oakes, Meskill, Blumenfeld

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