Rubashkin v. United States
Case Details
- Case No.: 11-1203
- Jurisdiction: United States Supreme Court
Key Topics in the Case
Documents
Prior Decision
Decision below 655 F.3d 849 (8th Cir. 2011).
Extensive ex parte pretrial contacts between the trial judge in the prosecutor in planning the defendant’s arrest and prosecution, coupled with the judge’s failure to disclose those contacts, raise fundamental substantive and procedural due process issues. The court of appeals’ requirement that grounds for granting a new trial based on newly-discovered evidence of judicial misconduct would probably lead to an acquittal was erroneous and the decision below should be reversed.
Author(s)
Nathan M. Crystal, Crystal & Giannoni-Crystal, LLC, Charleston, SC.
