United States v. Roy L. Bowen

How courts have described this case

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• if two indictments are pending against defendant, government may select which one to bring to trial
• “We have found no authority which supports the proposition that a superseding indictment zaps an earlier indictment to the end that the earlier indictment somehow vanishes into thin air.”
• a superseding indictment does not invalidate a preced- ing indictment and the government may proceed to trial on any pending indictment
• “A superseding indictment may be returned at any time before a trial on the merits of an earlier indictment.”
• “We have found no authority which supports the proposition that a superseding indictment zaps an earlier indictment to the end that the earlier indictment somehow vanishes into thin air.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).