United States v. Rogelio Lemus

How courts have described this case

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

• vacating the jury’s 50 gram finding because the government only offered an FBI agent’s testimony concerning the range of purity of methamphetamine previously purchased in the area by the FBI
• “[A] mistrial is appropriate only where there has been so much prejudice that an instruction is unlikely to cure it.”
• “A decision to not declare a mistrial will be reversed only if the improper comment, viewed in the context of the entire trial, more likely than not materially affected the verdict.”
• “When the court strikes testimony and gives . . . an instruction [to disregard it], there is a strong presumption that the jury has followed the court’s instruction.” (alterations in original) (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The Double Jeopardy Clause forbids a second trial ... ”

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3 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Ninth Circuit· 2019-08-30· cited 3×
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  Ninth Circuit· 2026-05-12

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• United States v. Nevils
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-03-19· cited 609×
• United States v. Victor Montano Disla
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-12-08· cited 221×
• United States v. Albert Escalante
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-10-06· cited 157×
• United States v. Hector Jesus Hernandez, Aka: Mauricio Solis, United States of America v. Jorge Walter Cardona
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-05-31· cited 151×
• Alfredo Delgado Arellanes and Geneva Arellanes v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1962-04-23· cited 150×
• United States v. Shawn Joaquin Smith, AKA \S-Man\
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-04-24· cited 142×
• United States v. Joshua R. Kilby
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-04-07· cited 107×
• United States v. Dorsey
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-04-30· cited 96×
• United States v. John David Gardner
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-01-11· cited 93×
• United States v. Salvador Vera
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-10-22· cited 89×
• United States v. Ewan Bryce, Also Known as Ian, Darren Johnson, Also Known as D-Nice, Also Known as D
  Second Circuit· 2000-03-07· cited 83×
• United States v. Eugene Jones
  Second Circuit· 1962-08-17· cited 80×
• United States v. Levi Culps
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-08-19· cited 48×
• United States v. Jesus Valdez-Novoa
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-07-28· cited 48×
• United States v. Barbara Lynn Baggett
  Tenth Circuit· 1990-01-12· cited 39×
• United States v. Robert Llewelyn Love, United States of America v. Arthur Luray Lyon
  Ninth Circuit· 1976-06-01· cited 33×
• United States v. Billy Flores
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-08-02· cited 30×
• United States v. John Francisco Valentin
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-02-17· cited 26×

Other cases named United States v. Rogelio Lemus

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• United States v. Rogelio Lemus
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-03-02
• United States v. Rogelio Lemus
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-06-28