United States v. Omar Cornielle, Melvin Feliz

How courts have described this case

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• stating that prejudice is generally shown by the loss of documentary evidence or the unavailability of a key witness
• emphasizing that these requirements are conjunctive
• Preindictment prejudice “is commonly demonstrated by the loss of documentary evidence or the unavailability of a key witness.”
• “. . . perjury goes to the very heart of the administration of justice”
• “A defendant bears the ‘heavy burden’ of proving both that he suffered actual prejudice because of the alleged pre-indictment delay and that such a delay was a course intentionally pursued by the government for an improper purpose.”
• “No legal system can long remain viable if lying under oath is treated as no more than a social solecism. Swearing to tell the truth is a solemn oath, the breach of which should have serious consequences.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).