Opinion

Rendon v. District of Columbia Board of Elections

  • 419 U.S. 1121
  • 95 S. Ct. 804
  • 42 L. Ed. 2d 820
  • 1975 U.S. LEXIS 347
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Jan 20, 1975
Status
Published
Cited by
168 cases
Authority
More cited than 99.3%

if the trial judge determines that a failure to disclose appears clearly to be harmless and is not a willful avoidance and egregious dereliction of the prosecutor’s statutory obligation, then he need not invoke the drastic remedies of 18 U.S.C. § 3500

How later courts described this case

  • if the trial judge determines that a failure to disclose appears clearly to be harmless and is not a willful avoidance and egregious dereliction of the prosecutor’s statutory obligation, then he need not invoke the drastic remedies of 18 U.S.C. § 3500
  • venue under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1) may be both where return was made and subscribed, and “in the district in which the return was filed”
  • defendant [must demonstrate] “a reasonable inference of bias on the part of the grand jury resulting from the comments of the prosecutor [referring to the defendants’ alleged association with the Mafia]”
  • no definition of “adult” in zoning ordinance

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.

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