Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Williams v. United States

Williams v. United States, 361 U.S. 862 (1959)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1959-10-19
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • inadvertent reference to defendant’s having served time in jail was “an isolated [incident] during the course of a long trial”; curative instruction given
  • proper to refuse production of report that was in investigator’s language, covered eight months’ worth of statements and was never shown to the witness
  • bribery and narcotics conspiracy prosecution of 19 defendants

Citator

UpLaw has not yet analyzed Williams v. United States. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.

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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.