United States v. Frank De Rosa

How courts have described this case

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

• “We review de novo a district court’s determination of whether a prosecutor’s alleged misconduct before a grand jury warrants dismissal of the indictment.”
• \We review de novo a district court's determination of whether a prosecutor's alleged misconduct before a grand jury warrants dismissal of the indictment.\
• “in assessing the impact of [irrelevant] testimony on the grand jury, we consider the prosecutor’s admonitions to the grand jury that tended to neutralize the effect of the ... testimony.”
• “Constitutional grounds for dismissal are limited *** because the grand jury’s determination is a preliminary one and because the full panoply of constitutional protection will be available at trial.”
• the court’s power to dismiss an indictment on the ground of prosecutorial misconduct is “ ‘rarely invoked’ ” (quoting United States v. Samango, 607 F.2d 877, 881 (9th Cir.1979))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).