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· 4/4/2008

United States v. Tyndall

Citations

  • 521 F.3d 877
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 7153
  • 2008 WL 899947

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that “[i]t is rarely appropriate to grant” this reduction after imposing an obstruction-of-justice enhancement
  • affirming an obstruction-of-justice enhancement while stating that “we once again emphasize the importance of detailed findings” to support such a ruling
  • noting, in rejecting a claim that the defendant’s due process rights were violated when the prosecutor failed to comply with Brady, “no prejudice can be shown unless there is a reasonable probability that the verdict would have been different”
  • “[A] district court may use a defendant’s relevant conduct in sentencing if it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the conduct occurred, even if that conduct formed the basis of a criminal charge on which a jury acquitted the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Loken, Wollman, Shepherd

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