Legal Opinion
United States v. Simone Swenson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 3, 2018No. 17-20131PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:
We decide whether the district court abused its discretion by dismissing an indictment with prejudice because the prosecution missed pretrial discovery deadlines, mistakenly withheld some relevant documents until the eve of trial, and committed other errors that led the district court to conclude the "integrity of the prosecution ha[d] been destroyed." We reverse the dismissal order and remand for further proceedings.
FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
The government indicted Simone Swenson, the owner and operator of an adoption agency, for fraud because, on multiple…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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