United States v. Griselda Blanco

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the defendant was a constructive-flight fugitive in part because she “clearly made no effort to return to the United States to face charges”
• holding that the government discharged its duty despite inability to extradite by tracking the defendant’s whereabouts abroad and attempting to detect his border movements
• refusing to find Sixth Amendment violation where defendant was a fugitive living in Columbia
• affirming district court’s finding of diligence by the government because the government entered the defendant’s information into NCIC system, spoke to an informant, and searched hospitals for a patient matching the defendant’s description and condition
• “[Sjince delay can just as easily hurt the government’s case, [the defendant’s] general claim that the delay impaired her defense also lacks force.”
• court's curative instruction to jury in connection with admission of evidence of defendant giving false name and carrying false identification when arrested obviated prejudice evidence might have created

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).