Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Workman v. United States

Workman v. United States, 409 U.S. 857 (1972)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1972-10-10
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • upholding refusal to ask about attitudes toward drug use, political activists, and antiwar demonstrators in prosecution of antiwar demonstrator for assault on policeman and destruction of government property
  • in bench conferences where defendant is in the courtroom but not present at the conference, the court is “entitled to rely on counsel’s performance of his agency duties and assume appellant’s absence from the bench was voluntary”

Citator

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

Authority status
pending
Cited by
56 opinions

C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.