United States v. Philip E. Watson and Shane E. O'Hearn

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• holding that the Court had no jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. § 3731 to hear the government’s appeal because the trial court did not make an evidentiary ruling
• crediting “Congress’s intent that all such orders would be appealable unless the Double Jeopardy Clause forbade that course of action”
• describing a ruling “excluding evidence” under section 3731 as one “that would, either in substance or in form, limit the pool of potential evidence that would be admissible”
• describing a ruling “excluding evidence” under section 3731 as one “that would, either in substance or in form, limit the pool of potential evidence that would be admissible”
• “Section 3731 was ‘carefully circumscribed by Congress out of a desire (among other reasons) to safeguard individuals from the special hazards inherent in prolonged litigation with the sovereign.’”
• “Section 3731 was ‘carefully circumscribed by Congress out of a desire (among other reasons) to safeguard individuals from the special hazards inherent in prolonged litigation with the sovereign.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).