United States v. Lopez-Matias

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• holding that the government's failure to follow \death penalty protocols\ in manual did not, alone, create a basis to dismiss its notice of intent to seek death sentence
• holding that the U.S. Attorneys’ Manual, predecessor to the Justice Manual, did not give rise to substantive rights and that its violation was insufficient to give rise to sanctions
• concluding United States Attorneys’ Manual on death penalty protocols did not confer substantive rights
• holding internal DOJ policy “not man- dated by statute or the constitution” does not confer substan- tive rights
• concluding United States Attorneys’ Manual on death penalty protocols did not confer substantive rights
• noting that \legal error is a per se abuse of discretion\

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