Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Ferguson v. United States
Ferguson v. United States, 475 U.S. 1020 (1986)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1986-02-24
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- When character evidence is not .objected to, its admission is only reviewable as plain error.
- three-hundred-year sentence without possibility of parole for ninety-nine years held within statutory bounds for kidnapping conviction
- right to cross-examination under Davis does not extend to stale convictions of witness
- defendant properly convicted for giving grand jury evasive answers which constituted concealment of evidence
- vagueness challenge reviewed for plain error
Citator
UpLaw has not yet analyzed Ferguson v. United States. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.
- Cited by
- 81 opinions
C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied.