Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Atchley v. Greenhill

47 L. Ed. 2d 320

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1976-02-23
Topic
general

stating that a discovery motion cannot be used to postpone summary judgment without some showing of relevance | no color of law because police department had policy of independently investigating before making arrests for shoplifting | prosecutor requested that the jury compare defendant's crying during his attorney's plea for his life with the lack of emotion during testimony of the details of the murder; held to be at most harmless error

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C. A. 5th Cir. Cer-tiorari denied.