United States v. Hubert Spain

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a statement that “[a]gents of the federal government do not make those kind (sic) of cases unless, in fact, there is evidence” was grossly improper
• holding that a statement that “[a]gents of the federal government do not make those kind (sic) of cases unless, in fact, there is evidence” was grossly improper
• where conflicts in the evidence exist and cannot be the result of honest mistake, each counsel is “entitled to argue that witnesses called by him had spoken the truth and those called by the other side had testified falsely”
• “[e]ven if the jury found that an agent had deliberately testified falsely on a collateral matter, it could still accept the substance of his testimony on the issues in the case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).