The question on this appeal is whether the discovery after a defendant's trial that a government witness perjured herself bars his retrial on double jeopardy grounds. The issue for us is a subtle one: whether the government's conduct in connection with its witness' perjury was merely a legal error or amounted to an impropriety or injustice against the defendant. While any impropriety in a defendant...
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