United States v. Charles Armen Calabrese, Samuel Ray Calabrese, Charles R. Knowles

How courts have described this case

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• concluding there was manifest necessity for a mistrial — and therefore retrial was not barred — where counsel attempted to impeach a witness using an affidavit he had prepared
• “nothing peculiarly different” instruction not reversible error where court repeatedly referred to reasonable doubt standard
• finding that allegations of harassment by government agents \in an unsworn pleading\ did not suffice to \warrant an evidentiary hearing on the issue of breach\ in the face of sworn statements submitted by the government
• requiring only a determination based on adequate evidence of a defendant’s breach of a plea bargain
• “It is clear that a defendant’s failure to fulfill the terms of a pretrial agreement relieves the government of its reciprocal obligations under the agreement.”
• “It is clear that a defendant’s failure to fulfill the terms of a pretrial agreement relieves the Government of its reciprocal obligations under the agreement.”

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