Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Larsen v. Sielaff
464 U.S. 956
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1983-10-31
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- § 1983 suit where prisoner did not seek not restoration of good-time, but just “wanted out” was functionally “a habeas corpus suit and nothing but a habeas corpus suit”
- given the court's cautionary instruction, no error for court to tell jury of co-defendants' nolo contendere pleas although it is better to simply tell jury that cases of co-defendants had been disposed of without saying how
- articulating principles of corporate criminal liability
Citator
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- Cited by
- 53 opinions
C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.
Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall would grant certiorari.