United States v. Pablo Vincent Montoya

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a missing witness “instruction is not warranted unless it is solely within the prosecution’s power to call the witness to testify.”
• holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in deciding that a witness was equally available to both sides where the defendant had not followed up on attempts to contact the witness, and had not asked for the government’s help in locating him
• “A growing realization that adverse collateral consequences inexorably flow from most criminal convictions has prompted both courts and commentators to criticize frequent application of the [concurrent sentence] doctrine.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).