Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Ferguson v. United States

89 L. Ed. 2d 320

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1986-02-24
Topic
general

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 | vagueness challenge reviewed for plain error

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C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied.