Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Turner v. Arkansas Mental Health Department

Turner v. Ark. Mental Health Dep’t, 531 U.S. 1018 (2000)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
2000-11-27
Topic
employee-benefits-and-executive-compensation

How later courts describe this case

  • stating that, “where an indictment is alleged to be invalid on its face, thereby depriving the trial court of its [subject matter] jurisdiction, a challenge to that indictment may be made at any time, even if it was not contested in the trial corut”
  • finding no error in the trial court’s rejection of very similar instructions proposed by the defendant because the “[d]efendant’s proposed instructions merely articulate[d] variations on the definition.”
  • defendant’s conviction for assault on a child upheld when assault was on defendant’s son

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Authority status
pending
Cited by
154 opinions

C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied.