United States v. John A. Walczak

How courts have described this case

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• holding that jurisdiction over a U.S. citizen who violated a federal statute while in Canada was proper under the national- ity principle
• “Whether 28 an evidentiary hearing is appropriate rests in the reasoned discretion of the district court.”
• party seeking grand jury materials must show a particularized need that outweighs the policy of secrecy
• “A trial judge should order disclosure of grand jury transcripts only when the party seeking them has demonstrated that a particularized need exists ... which outweighs the policy of secrecy.”
• “An evidentiary hearing on a motion to suppress ordinarily is required if the moving papers are sufficiently definite, specific, detailed, and nonconjectural to enable the court to conclude that contested issues of fact going to the validity of the search are in issue.”
• “A trial judge should order disclosure of grand jury transcripts only when the party seeking them has demonstrated that a ‘particularized need exists . . . which outweighs the policy of secrecy.’” (quoting Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. United States, 360 U.S. 395, 400 (1959))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).