Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Williams v. Ward
Williams v. Ward, 488 U.S. 1020 (1989)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1989-01-09
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- finding procedure that sanctioned seventy-two hour delay between arrest and judicial determination of probable cause permissible under Gerstein
- no error in charge that jury must find "that a mitigating circumstance exists if there is any substantial evidence to support it."
- upholding a seventy-two hour pre-arraignment detention period
Citator
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- Cited by
- 83 opinions
C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.
Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall would grant certiorari.