United States v. Tomblin

How courts have described this case

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• declining to find that an omission was intentional or reckless “because the balance of the information submitted in the affidavits is more than sufficient on its own to establish probable cause”
• “Also, there was substantial evidence of [the defendant’s] guilt, including witness testimony and the taped conversations.”
• “Rule 608 authorizes inquiry only into instances of misconduct that are clearly probative of truthfulness or untruthfulness, such as perjury, fraud, swindling, forgery, bribery, and embezzlement.”
• “Consequently, we examine the effect of any cautionary instructions given by the trial judge and the strength of the evidence suggesting guilt to see if they attenuate the prejudice of the prosecutor’s statement.”
• testimony that public official agreed to accept campaign contributions as bribes
• “[R]ecklessness can in some circumstances be inferred directly from the omission itself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).