Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Mosley v. United States Department of Labor

439 U.S. 986

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.