United States v. John D. Rogers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the district court probably erred by admitting” certain recorded conversations, but declining to reverse because “any error was harmless”
• holding that defendant failed to show prejudice where witness died before trial and it was “unlikely that his testimony would have affected the outcome of the trial”
• noting that the third element of a plain error analysis requires that substantial rights are effected by the error, such that there is prejudice
• holding that a defendant cannot show actual prejudice from the death of a potential witness unless he indicates what the witnesses’s testimony would have been, and that the substance of that testimony was not otherwise available
• suggesting that \negligence” is insufficient to show \that the government engaged in use of the pre-indictment delay for tactical reasons....”
• noting that the third element of a plain error analysis requires that substantial rights are effected by the error, such that there is prejudice

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