United States v. James P. Fitch

How courts have described this case

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• holding that unless the breach of an informal immunity agreement is “material and substantial,” the aggrieved party cannot invoke contract-based remedies
• holding that informal immunity substance from one person to another.” Thus, the jury was agreement is binding on government where defendant did not materially breach agreement
• stating that a provision in an immunity agreement allowing the government to prosecute the defendant for perjury was the government’s sole remedy for his breach
• acknowledging that the government’s burden of proof to demonstrate that a defendant breached a proffer agreement is governed by either the preponderance-of-the-evidence or adequate-evidence standard
• “If a breach of an immunity agreement is established, the available remedies are those specified in the agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).