United States v. Brian Dierling

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to recognize authority of court to grant immunity to a witness
• declining to recognize authority of court to grant immunity to a witness
• “Use immunity has been ordered elsewhere on occasion for a witness with ‘clearly exculpatory’ evidence where there is no strong countervailing interest of the government.”
• evidence held admissible because it “showed the lengths the conspirators would go to protect their interest in the long term viability of the conspiracy”
• appellate review of sentencing findings is for clear error
• sentencing court’s assessment of witness credibility “nearly unreviewable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).