United States v. Gomez-Olmeda

OPINION AND ORDER

FUSTE, District Judge.

We are presented with novel issues which require that we determine when prosecutorial mismanagement not only implicates the rights of a defendant and transgresses the boundaries of fair play, but also jeopardizes the proper functioning of the judicial system. Here, Defendant was confronted repeatedly with a host of inequities which collectively compromised his ability to adequately defend himself— an unfairness all the more severe because the penalty Defendant faces is that of death.

Defendant was denied court-ordered discovery which Defendant, and this…