United States v. Sylvester J. Lewis

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• trial judge found to have committed error by not excluding incriminating statement elicited on cross-examination of defendant
• trial judge found to have erred by failing to suppress defendant’s incriminating statement where government had known about it and had agreed not to use any such statements
• “a principal purpose of discovery is to advise defense counsel what the defendant faces in standing trial; it permits a more accurate evaluation of the factors to be weighed in considering a disposition of the charges without trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).