 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1988 - 970 pages
...representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty . . . whose interest ... in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done." Berger v. United States, 295 US 78, 88 (1935). See Brady v. Maryland, 373 US, at 87-88. 'See United... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1956 - 286 pages
...considered unethical or improper. As the Supreme Court has observed, the interest of the Government "is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done." The United States attorney, as the servant of the law, has a twofold aim: "That guilt shall not escape... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1956 - 288 pages
...considered unethical or improper. As the Supreme Court has observed, the interest of the Government "is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done." The United States attorney, as the servant of the law, has a twofold aim: "That guilt shall not escape... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Appellate procedure - 1957 - 370 pages
...justice in the federal courts and must therefore be rejected. For the interest of the United States in a criminal prosecution ". . . is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done. . . ." Berger v. United States, 295 US 78, 88." This Court held in Goldman v. United States, 316 US... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1961 - 1010 pages
...facts about the interview. In addition to the consideration that the interest of the United States in a criminal prosecution ". . . is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done, . . ." Berger v. United States, 295 US 78, 88, the ordinary rule, based on considerations of fairness,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1966 - 790 pages
...representative not of au ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to government impartially is as compelling as its obligation to...a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a ease, but that justice shall be done. As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant... | |
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Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all ; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not... 
