The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Carreno, 363 F.3d 883 (9th Cir. 2004):
We are extremely troubled by the government's oversights in tracking the witnesses and its reliance on inter-agency communication failures to justify a serious prosecutorial error. Nonetheless, Carreno has produced no evidence that the government knew, or even suspected, that Sanchez would testify in Carreno's favor, see, e.g., Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51, 58, 109 S.Ct. 333, 102 L.Ed.2d 281 (1988), or any other evidence that the government's deportation of Sanchez was anything but negligent. Sloppy work, albeit unbecoming, is not tantamount to bad faith.
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