United States v. Levenite

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging the dangers of working with a paid witness but stating that because, among other things, the informant instruction was given \the necessary safeguards were fully employed\
• reaffirming that paid informants are subjected to a higher degree of scrutiny as to both weight and credibility, and if the payment is contingent upon testimony at trial, it must be subjected to an even higher degree of scrutiny
• affirming an 11-juror verdict when a juror was excused after two days of deliberations in a complex case involving several defendants and counts
• defendants could not see the faces of witnesses testifying against them due to number of 22 defendants at trial and size of courtroom

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).