United States v. Brito, Appeal of Vincente Carhuapoma, A/K/A \Vincente Carhuapoma Hartley\, and German Salcedo

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• explaining that the \social costs of dismissing an indictment because of an imperfect grand jury proceeding are simply too high ... when the defendant has been convicted after a full and fair trial and no harm has been done\
• observing that because “the prosecutor did warn the grand jurors, however clumsily, about the hearsay nature of the agent’s testimony; and most importantly, the agent’s testimony to the grand jury was concededly accurate[,]” the indictment was proper
• explaining that the ʺsocial costs of dismissing an indictment because of an imperfect grand jury proceeding are simply too high . . . when the defendant has been convicted after a full and fair trial and no harm has been doneʺ
• “leading questions tend to mute one of the chief functions of the grand jury, the evaluation of the strength of the evidence and the credibility of witnesses,” but no misleading of the grand jury or prejudice shown

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