 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1953 - 874 pages
...Government can invoke its evidentiary privileges only at the price of letting the defendant go free." The rationale of the criminal cases is that, since...undertake prosecution and then invoke its governmental privileges to deprive the accused of anything which might be material to -his defense. Such rationale... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Civil procedure - 1956 - 560 pages
...Government can invoke its evidentiary privileges only at the price of letting the defendant go free. The rationale of the criminal cases is that, since...undertake prosecution and then invoke its governmental privileges to deprive the accused of anything which might be material to his defense. Such rationale... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Appellate procedure - 1957 - 314 pages
...Government can invoke its evidentiary privileges only at the price of letting the defendant go free. The rationale of the criminal cases is that, since...undertake prosecution and then invoke its governmental privileges to deprive the accused of anything which might be material to his defense. . . ." 345 US,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1958 - 516 pages
...Government can invoke its evidentiary privileges only at the price of letting the defendant go free.27 The rationale of the criminal cases is that, since...undertake prosecution and then invoke its governmental privileges to deprive the accused of anything which might be material to his defense. Such rationale... | |
 | United States. Federal Trade Commission - Competition - 1970 - 1154 pages
...States v. Reynolds, 345 US 1, 12, and United States v. Andolschek, 142 F. 2d 503, 506 (2d Cir. 1944), that "since the Government which prosecutes an accused...undertake prosecution and then invoke its governmental privileges to deprive the accused of anything which might be material to his defense. * * * [T]he prosecution... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1975 - 304 pages
...changed. The United States Supreme Court made this comment on criminal discovery in 1952 : t SJince the Government which prosecutes an accused also has...anything which might be material to his defense.** Later statements reinforce the impression that the Supreme Court favors disclosure, not secretion,... | |
 | Clinton Rossiter - Biography & Autobiography - 1976 - 260 pages
...And, further, the language of Reynolds includes the statement, "The rationale of the criminal case is that, since the government which prosecutes an...undertake prosecution and then invoke its governmental privileges to deprive the accused of anything which might be material to his defense," adding, "judicial... | |
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The rationale of the criminal cases is that, since the Government which prosecutes an accused also has the duty to see that justice is done, it is unconscionable to allow it to undertake prosecution and then invoke its governmental privileges to deprive... 
