United States v. Emmit Long

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the government may penalize a refusal to cooperate and that “it is difficult to see how the mere allegation that Long was disadvantaged by refusing to cooperate could, without more, suffice to show ‘vindictive ness’ ”
• noting that government may penalize a refusal to cooperate and that “it is difficult to see how the mere allegation that [defendant] was disadvantaged by refusing to cooperate could, without more, suffice to show ‘vindictiveness’”
• no vindictiveness when prosecution pursued charges after defendant charged with drug crimes refused to cooperate in public corruption investigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).