United States v. Stanley A. Partyka

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• holding out-of-court statements related to a proposition to sell drugs were admissible as “manifestations of [the declarant’s] present state of mind”
• any fear of vindictiveness rebutted because reversal of conviction on appeal disclosed informant's identity and thus removed government's reason for not earlier seeking prosecution on stiffer charges
• any fear of vindictiveness rebutted because reversal of conviction on appeal disclosed informant’s identity and thus removed government’s reason for not earlier seeking prosecution on stiffer charges
• government’s desire to protect informant can provide legitimate reason for delay
• “[W]e do not read [Blackledge ] as taking away from prosecutors their traditional and proper discretion in deciding which of multiple possible charges against a defendant are to be prosecuted or whether they are all to be prosecuted at the same time.”

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