Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Green v. United States
Green v. United States, 88 L. Ed. 2d 266 (1985)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1985-10-21
- Topic
- general
denying certio-rari in a case where defendant, a mentally retarded, with an IQ of 65 and mental abilities roughly equivalent to those of a ten-year-old child, had been tried and convicted of murder | White, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari and noting the circuit split on the issue | specific intent to defraud means to deceive or mislead, and does not include situations where act involved was the result of ignorance, mistake, or accident | White, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari and noting circuit split in which Second and D.C. Circuits, among others, hold that defendant is not entitled to separate good-faith instruction
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.