United States v. Reaves
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
636 F. Supp. 1575 (1986)
- Written by Sean Carroll, JD
Facts
Reaves (defendant) was charged with tax fraud. The prosecution (plaintiff) planned to introduce numerous tax returns of people and corporate entities as evidence. The prosecution estimated that its case-in-chief would take one month. The trial court, believing that such production of evidence would be unnecessarily repetitive, adopted a scheduling order. The scheduling order granted the prosecution 10 days to present its case-in-chief. The prosecution challenged the power of the court to limit its production of evidence with the scheduling order.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Bertelsman, J.)
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