United States v. Raymond L. Ness

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that (in a criminal case) “[t]he fact that access to the Government’s files might be helpful to a defendant seeking to prove discriminatory prosecution does not relieve him of the burden of making an initial showing [of disparate treatment]”
• “discriminatory investigation taints prosecution where normal procedures for selecting cases for prosecution have been bypassed”
• prosecution based on exercise of “First Amendment” rights is impermissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).