United States v. Manuel Rivas Cisneros

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the cautionary instructions advising the jury of its role as fact-finder” failed to cure the judge’s subsequent comment that one of the witnesses was lying
• observing that when credibility issues before the jury are close and important, “commenting on the evidence is a perilous endeavor, to be undertaken with caution”
• requiring a new trial when district court told the jury \somebody is lying in this case\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).