United States v. Charles F. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, even if the officers lacked probable cause to support the defendant’s arrest, “the proper remedy would be suppression of the evidence rather than dismissal of the indictment”
• dismissal of indictment reversed; government’s failure to supervise “amoral” paid informer insufficient ground and no showing that government conduct was “widespread or continuous”
• $500 paid to an informant for his role in the transactions leading to Brown’s arrest
• “[T]he proper remedy [for a defective arrest] would be suppression of the evidence rather than dismissal of the indictment.”
• court lacked power to dismiss indictment following mistrial based upon hung jury “simply because it deems the dismissal to be in the interests of justice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).