Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Alvarez-Figueroa v. United States

517 U.S. 1162

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1996-04-22
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • finding that previous convictions for similar crimes constituted “a clear ground for a heavier sentence”
  • noting that "passing allusions are not adequate to preserve an argument in either a trial or an appellate venue"

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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.