Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Lenny v. Mellody
412 U.S. 923
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1973-05-29
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- section of graded deck of offshore platform which gave way beneath plaintiff’s feet and plummeted into the Gulf of Mexico constituted “ruin”
- counsel had reasonable basis for not calling attention to error in charge on voluntary manslaughter where strategy was to present choice between conviction and acquittal on self-defense
Citator
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Pa. Commw. Ct. Motion to dispense with printing petition granted. Certiorari denied.