United States v. Hans

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• no positive rule of law excludes witness's testimony entirely based on willful falsehood, but such falsification presents issue for jury to consider in weighing rest of testimony
• “We have the gravest doubt whether the judge’s undoubted power to set aside a verdict and enter a judgment of acquittal . .. can survive the entry of a judgment of conviction; the two actions seem antithetical.”

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