United States v. Clemmons J. Allen

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• noting that “unfulfilled threats 11 of physical mistreatment . . . were not sufficiently imminent 12 or concrete for the threats themselves to be considered past 13 persecution” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding extortion under color of official right and bribery \different sides of the same coin\
• Campaign contributions are “unavoidable so long as election campaigns are financed by private contributions or expenditures, as they have been from the beginning of the nation.”
• “Rule 701 places great reliance on a party’s ability to cross-examine an opponent’s witness and present any weaknesses in the wit- ness’s testimony to the trier of fact.”
• “Rule 701 places great reliance on a party’s ability to cross-examine an opponent’s witness and present any weaknesses in the wit- ness’s testimony to the trier of fact.”
• “Rule 701 places great reliance on a party’s ability to cross-examine an opponent’s witness and present any weaknesses in the wit- ness’s testimony to the trier of fact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).