United States v. William J. Vandetti

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that allowing a privilege-asserting witness to take the stand is “so imbued with the ‘potential for unfair prejudice’ that a trial judge should closely scrutinize any such request.”
• observing that evidence of a witness’s invocation of his Fifth Amendment right before the jury raised “a real danger that ... [it] may be given undue weight” to the evidence “although it is entitled to none in the law”
• observing that evidence of a witness’s invocation of his Fifth Amendment right before the jury raised “a real danger that ... [it] may be given undue weight” to the evidence “although it is entitled to none in the law”
• observing that evidence of a witness’s invocation of his Fifth Amendment right before the jury raised “a real danger that ... [it] may be given undue weight” to the evidence “although it is entitled to none in the law”
• observing that evidence of a witness’s invocation of his Fifth Amendment right before the jury raised “a real danger that ... [it] may be given undue weight” to the evidence “although it is entitled to none in the law”
• codefendant’s conviction “has no tendency to make the existence [of defendant’s guilt] more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).