United States v. Lai-Moi Leung and Seow Ming Choon

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that in some circumstances, the trial court should undertake an independent in camera review of government files to determine materiality of the evidence
• applying harmless error analysis to court’s failure to convey in advance to counsel jury’s request for certain transcripts
• remanding for resentencing before a different judge because there was a sufficient risk that a reasonable observer might infer that the defendant's alien status played a role in determining her sentence
• “A defendant’s race or nationality may play no adverse role in the administration of justice, including at sentencing”
• “A defendant’s race or nationality may play no adverse role in the administration of justice, including at sentencing”
• “[I]n some circumstances the trial court should not rely on the Government’s representations as to the materiality of potential impeachment evidence, but should instead undertake an independent in camera review . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).