United States v. Steven Madori, Charles Chiapetta

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a debtor’s belief that a creditor is connected to organized crime may be introduced since it evidences the debtor’s understanding that a threat of violence exists”
• holding that “a debtor’s belief that a creditor is connected to organized crime may be introduced since it evidences the debtor’s understanding that a threat of violence exists”
• stating that materiality “turns on the cumulative effect of all such evidence suppressed by the government” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Proving that both parties knew at the time that the loan was ‘extortionate’ requires the government to establish that [the victim] understood that a threat of violence existed.”
• materiality is a mixed question of fact and law; trial court’s factual determinations entitled to deference, but legal rulings reviewed de novo
• “Impeachment evidence is evidence ‘having the potential to alter the jury’s assessment of the credibility of a significant prosecution witness.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).