United States v. David L. Smith, United States of America v. Herbert A. Bates

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[s]ubstantial proof of grand jury bias is required to overturn an indictment” and rejecting challenge where the defendant made “no factual allegation of actual bias on the part of any grand juror in his case” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that lack of remorse is a “legitimate sentencing factor[]”
• assuming that Gantt applies and distinguishing it
• assuming that Gantt applies and distin- guishing it
• “[N]either suppression nor reversal of Smith’s conviction is warranted by this technical violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1691.”
• “Multiplicity of sentences is unlike the issue of multiplicity of an indictment which can be waived if not raised below.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).