Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Melton v. United States
Melton v. United States, 484 U.S. 1068 (1988)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1988-02-22
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- upholding an instruction that differed from that of Silvern where early in the deliberations one juror stated that he believed the evidence insufficient to convict any defendant on any count
- plain error is prejudicial in that it undermines confidence in the outcome of the trial
- prosecutors may "pursue evidentiary inferences for what they are worth”
Citator
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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.