Legal Opinion
United States v. Kenneth Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 24, 1999No. Docket 98-1716PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Per curiam
We consider here an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Whitman Knapp, Judge) dismissing a three-count indictment, charging defendant-appellee Kenneth Johnson with various weapons violations, based upon the district court’s finding of vindictive prosecution. The district court relied upon a sequence of events in which the Government did not initiate the weapons prosecution- — despite the presumptive availability of the underlying evidence and an ongoing state prosecution based on the same facts — until after defendant had exercised his right to a…
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