United States v. Stringer

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

I. Introduction

The United States appeals from a final order of the district court dismissing criminal indictments against three individual defendants charging counts of criminal securities violations. The dismissal was premised on the district court’s conclusion that the government had engaged in deceitful conduct, in violation of defendants’ due process rights, by simultaneously pursuing civil and criminal investigations of defendants’ alleged falsification of the financial records of their high-tech camera sales company. Foreseeing the possibility of an appeal, the…