United States v. David Gene Lewis

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the Double Jeopardy Clause “prevents prosecutors from sinking a case they knew was doomed to end in an acquittal in the hope of having better luck before a second jury”
• “Barring a retrial for the prosecution’s alleged intentional Brady violations would be an unnecessary expansion of the Double Jeopardy Clause.”
• government's alleged Brady violations at first trial did not establish a double jeopardy bar to retrial
• government's alleged Brady violations at first trial did not establish a double jeopardy bar to retrial
• government's alleged Brady violations at first trial did not establish a double jeopardy bar to retrial
• “Courts . . . can dismiss actions where government attorneys have willfully deceived the court an engaged in conduct utterly inconsistent with the orderly administration of justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).