Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Cannon v. Texas

474 U.S. 1110

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1986-01-27
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • holding that comment was invited when defense counsel alluded to his client’s silence and then “referred to appellant’s knowledge ... that appellant knew he was facing two police officers”
  • State’s reference to motive is not reversible error if invited by defense counsel’s argument
  • defendant's claimed invocation of the right to counsel not made during any custodial interrogation
  • generally improper to consider evidence which points to defendant's guilt of some other offense

Citator

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Sup. Ct. Ill. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-5687, 691 S. W. 2d 664; No. 85-5825, 692 S. W. 2d 686; No. 85-5946, 108 Ill. 2d 70, 483 N. E. 2d 250.