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U.S. v. Morris, No. 05-4679 (7th Cir.) (498 F.3d 634) (August 20, 2007) (Judge Diane P. Wood)

Loaded on Oct. 1, 2007 published in Punch and Jurists October 15, 2007
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Harmless Error.

Here the Court held that, even though the prosecutor had unquestionably engaged in prosecutorial misconduct by incorrectly suggesting that a cooperating witness would get no less than a 10 year sentence for his own crime, the error was harmless.

To use the oft-quoted words of Judge Jerome Frank (below), this ...

 

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