Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Mosley v. United States Department of Labor

Mosley v. United States Dep’t of Labor, 439 U.S. 986 (1978)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1978-11-27
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • prosecutor's comment did not result in "clear error" because of the "significant factor" of the strength of the case against defendant
  • indictment charged distribution of heroin; jury properly instructed that it could find defendant guilty if the -narcotics were either heroin or cocaine
  • where literal reading of juvenile statute would have led to anomalous result,'court chose “construction which best serve[d] the intended purpose of the statute.”
  • “evidence of an earlier conspiracy among the defendants ... was properly admitted as proof of similar acts by the defendants”
  • "(o)rdinarily a conviction under § 2113(a) merges into a conviction under § 2113(d)"
  • 18-year-old with I.Q. of 69 and classified as "functional illiterate"
  • dividing the money is part of the conspiracy

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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.