United States v. William E. Fleetwood, III

How courts have described this case

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• conviction reversed because Government deliberately introduced guilty pleas of others to create inference of guilt against accused
• repetition of evidence at trial and emphasis placed upon it by the Government was so prejudicial as to make doubtful that any instruction could neutralize the harmful impact
• “[I]n some instances information pertaining to the guilty pleas of others might so taint the trial of an individual that the error [cannot] be cured despite a cautionary instruction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).