Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Ormento v. United States
Ormento v. United States, 375 U.S. 940 (1963)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1963-12-09
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- government may introduce evidence of defendant’s prior narcotics convictions only to rebut defendant’s denial of any prior criminal record
- the identity of the substance as narcotics may be established by circumstantial evidence
- restraints must be put on requests for substitution of counsel lest the right be “manipulated so as to obstruct the orderly procedure in the courts or to interfere with the fair administration of justice”
Citator
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.
Reported below: 319 F. 2d 916.