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· 10/16/1997

United States v. Richard Messina

Citations

  • 131 F.3d 36
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 28600
  • 1997 WL 794188

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding on the trial court’s partiality only after reviewing the trial transcript
  • identifying no plain error absent indication that district court “displayed any antipathy toward [defendant’s] testimony that went beyond judicial skepticism” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • defendant's \polygraph evidence . . . was unworthy of credit\

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Judges: Oakes, Meskill, Calabresi

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