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United States Vs. Williams

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 22, 1992

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  11. U.S. 36 (1992) October Term, 1991 Syllabus United States V. Williams
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  12. The Court will not review a question that was neither pressed nor passed on below, see, e. g., Stevens v. Department
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  13. Court granted Williams' motion for disclosure of all exculpatory portions of the grand jury transcripts. See Brady v. Maryland
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  14. that the Government had failed to fulfill its obligation under the Tenth Circuit's prior decision in United States v. Page
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  15. App. to Pet. for Cert. 23a-24a (quoting United States v. Gray
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  16. Id., at 903 (quoting Bank of Nova Scotia v. United
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  17. no doubt that we have jurisdiction to entertain the case) to reverse course at this late stage. See, e. g., Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack
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  18. Stevens v. Department
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  19. Springfield v. Kibbe
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  20. exists here. 4 Relying upon, and to some extent repeating, the reasoning of its earlier holding in United States v. Page
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  21. McGoldrick v. Compagnie
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  22. the state court of an opportunity to rest its decision on an adequate and independent state ground. See Illinois v. Gates
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  23. see also Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw
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  24. U. S. 71 , 79-80 (1988). But cf. Cohen v. Cowles
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  25. a similar rule (indeed, a rule even more broadly cast) to the disadvantage of the United States, see Stevens v. Department
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  26. principle it expresses, deal strictly with the courts' power to control their own procedures. See, e. g., Jencks v. United
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  27. McNabb v. United
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  28. That power has been applied not only to improve the truthfinding process of the trial, see, e. g., Mesarosh v. United
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  29. rules (imposed by the Constitution or laws) governing matters apart from the trial itself, see, e. g., Weeks v. United
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  30. States, 232 U. S. 383 (1914). Thus, Bank of Nova Scotia v. United
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  31. see generally United States v. Sells
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  32. criminalizing subornation of perjury). That some of the misconduct alleged in Bank of Nova Scotia v. United
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  33. United States v. Chanen
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  34. F.2d 1306 , 1312 (CA9) (quoting Nixon v. Sirica
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  35. institutional Government, serving as a kind of buffer or referee between the Government and the people. See Stirone v. United
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  36. the constitutive one of calling the grand jurors together and administering their oaths of office. See United States v. Calandra
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  37. Enterprises, Inc., 498 U. S. 292 , 297 (1991) (quoting United States v. Morton
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  38. it is investigating. Blair v. United
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  39. the production of evidence, and must appeal to the court when such compulsion is required. See, e. g., Brown v. United
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  40. when the compulsion the grand jury seeks would override rights accorded by the Constitution, see, e. g., Gravel v. United
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  41. United States v. Thompson
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  42. is summoned to appear before a grand jury, even if he is the subject of the investigation. See United States v. Mandujano
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  43. against self-incrimination, Calandra, supra, at 346 (citing Kastigar v. United
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  44. see Lawn v. United
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  45. process, but we have refused them all, including some more appealing than the one presented today. In United States v. Calandra
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  46. U. S., at 349. In Costello v. United
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  47. a very limited one, not remotely comparable to the power they maintain over their own proceedings. See United States v. Chanen
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  48. relationships between the prosecutor, the constituting court, and the grand jury itself. Cf., e. g., United States v. Payner
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  49. Wood v. Georgia
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  50. who may be justly accused and shielding the innocent from unfounded accusation and prosecution. See, e. g., Stirone v. United
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