Topic: clearly contrary to manifest public interest. · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 28 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from In Re United States of America, United States of America v. Ray Cowan and Jack Jacobsen, Wayne O. Woodruff, Special Prosecutors.

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1 In Re United States of America, United States of America v. Ray Cowan and Jack Jacobsen, Wayne O. Woodruff, Special Prosecutors Anchor
ca5 · 1975
green “clearly contrary to manifest public interest.” 14
2 In Re United States of America, United States of America v. Ray Cowan and Jack Jacobsen, Wayne O. Woodruff, Special Prosecutors
ca5 · 1975
green “the supreme court intended to clothe the federal courts with a discretion broad enough to protect the public interest in the fair administration of criminal justice.” 9
3 United States v. Robert Hamm, United States of America v. Willis Judge Butler, Les Wallick Fuller, Dayton Bud Evans, Jr. And Larry Dale Washington
ca5 · 1981
green “is primarily intended to protect the defendant against prosecutorial harassment.” 5

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