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· 3/3/1986

United States v. Kenneth Huie Davis

Citations

  • 785 F.2d 610
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 22715

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that “isolated comments” made by the district court outside the presence of the jury were “simply . . . not sufficient to show trial prejudice”
  • stating the Government does not bear the burden of demonstrating an extension of time was warranted and implying the extension is automatic where no grand jury is in session
  • “It has been held time and again that an illegal arrest and detention, without more, does not void a subsequent prosecution.”
  • “A district court has broad discretion in determining where within a district a trial will be held, and to overturn the court’s decision the defendant must prove abuse of that discretion or prejudice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Heaney, Henley, Gibson

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