Droback v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• "the judgmental element arises through the necessity to select and emphasize certain facts at the expense of others"
• witness's statements about airplane crash, even though given in confidentiality to safety investigators, were not exempt because not commercial or financial information
• organization’s authority to make final decisions is indicative of government-controlled, FOIA agency status, although “each arrangement must be examined anew and in its own context”
• “[T]he judgmental element arises through the necessity to select and emphasize certain facts at the expense of others[.]”
• joinder under Rule 8(a) permissible where mail fraud charges and tax evasion charges all were connected with the defendant’s use of his public office for private gain
• newspaper article about government’s investigation of defendants’ actions appeared between jury selection and beginning of trial
• defendant’s consultation of lawyer regarding tax returns purges taint of illegal search, allowing illegally seized evidence to be used in criminal prosecution for tax fraud committed after search
• "(W)e do not think it would serve the deterrent purpose of the exclusionary rule to deny to (defendant's) trial not merely the unlawful confession, but also truthful testimony from (a third-party witness)"