United States v. Sam Salvatore Sarcinelli and Pamela Sue Messina

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

When a party in a criminal case fails to comply with a Fed.R.Crim.P. 16 discovery order, the district court “may order such party to permit the discovery or inspection, grant a continuance, or prohibit the party from introducing evidence not disclosed, or it may enter such other order as it deems just under the circumstances.... ” Fed.R.Crim.P. 16(d)(2). The question presented in this narcotics case is whether the district court abused the broad discretion accorded it under this rule, see United States v. Campagnuolo, 592 F.2d 852 (5th Cir. 1979), when it suppressed…