United States v. Robert Castillo, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that any “attempt by a criminal defendant to suppress evidence is pro- bative of consciousness of guilt and admissible on that ba- sis”
• explaining that any “attempt by a criminal defendant to suppress evidence is pro- bative of consciousness of guilt and admissible on that ba- sis”
• finding that defendant’s statements to a prison counselor indicating willingness to plead guilty were not covered by Rule 410 “because the counselor was not empowered to negotiate on behalf of the government”
• prosecutor improperly suggested that the juiy find witnesses’ assertion of the Fifth Amendment as to particular questions to be the equivalent of affirmative answers to the potentially incriminating questions
• close-up photos of stab wounds relevant to self-defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).