United States v. Killingsworth

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the district court abused its discretion by undervaluing the offense’s seriousness and “[n]eglecting to find that the first factor favored dismissal without prejudice”
• noting that such a rule “would render Congress’s designation of two types of dismissal largely irrelevant”
• reversing dismissal with prejudice, in part because “the district court undervalued [the seriousness of the offense] fac- tor by stating that while the offense was serious and involved a gun, there was no murder or injury”
• “[T]he absence of bad faith by the government and the lack of prejudice to the defendant nudge this factor in favor of dismissal without prejudice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).