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· 7/13/1993

United States v. Lee Howard Montgomery, Howard Lee Montgomery, AKA Lee Howard Montgomery v. United States

Citations

  • 998 F.2d 1468
  • 93 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5310
  • 93 Daily Journal DAR 8980
  • 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 17198

How courts have described this case

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

  • articulating the government’s heightened obligation to use “reasonable efforts” to produce a witness to testify at trial if the witness served as a confidential informant
  • “Courts typically find the government’s efforts to secure the presence of a confidential informant unreasonable when the government acts with negligence or intentional avoidance.”

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Judges: Tang, Hall, Walker

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