United States v. Richard A. Heidecke, Jr.

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• absent a presumption of prosecutorial vindictiveness, “some kind of genuine prosecu-torial animus should be directly or indirectly shown”
• “For a presumption of vindictiveness to arise, the facts of a case must implicate . . . a personal stake of the prosecutor; in other words, there must be a realistic likelihood of vindictiveness.”
• requiring defendant to make a “colorable showing” of sham prosecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).