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· 10/4/1961

Wallace v. City of Rock Island

Citations

  • 198 F. Supp. 73
  • 1961 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5789

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding the Nixon standard “inappropriate where production is requested by (A) a criminal defendant; (B) on the eve of trial; (C) from a non-party; (D
  • declining to quash defense’s Rule 17(c) subpoenas issued to Bureau of Prisons where only defenses asserted concerned scope of requests
  • denying motion to quash subpoena to BOP for cooperating witness’s telephone records based on transcript produced in discovery indicating that witness may have been promised inducements for testimony
  • Rule 17(c) invoked by defendant seeking over forty-five hours of recorded jail calls of cooperating witnesses
  • “Impeachment of the eooperators is clearly material to [the defendant’s] defense.”

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Judges: Mercer

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