United States v. Stever

How courts have described this case

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

• finding the exclusion of evidence denied “a meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense” because Stever was entirely precluded from offering his desired defense
• excluded evidence that Mexican drug trafficking organizations had a practice of trespassing on farmland and planting marijuana
• “A violation of the right to present a defense requires reversal of a guilty verdict unless the Government convinces us that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
• “[T]he district court is not free to dismiss logically relevant evidence as speculative.”
• discovery rulings are reviewed for abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).