United States v. Armstrong

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1996-05-13

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Justice Ginsburg, concurring. I do not understand the Court to have created a “major limitation” on the scope of discovery available under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 16. See post, at 475 (Breyer, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). As I see it, the Court has decided a precise issue: whether the phrase “defendant’s defense,” as used in Rule 16(a)(1)(C), encompasses allegations…

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