Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Inendino v. United States
Inendino v. United States, 62 L. Ed. 2d 190 (1979)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1979-10-29
- Topic
- general
holding that defendant was not prejudiced by the restrictions placed on his counsel's cross-examination of key government witness, where "[t]he jury was sufficiently apprised of other bases on which [the defendant's] credibility was vulnerable to attack" | courts must assess “typical buyer exercising ordinary caution”; this standard excludes the “wholly indifferent” but includes “the ignorant and the credulous.” | buyer of a “big ticket” item such as carpeting would ordinarily be expected to be more careful in buying than the impulse buyer of a relatively inexpensive item | § 3575 does not create separate criminal charge | three instances of confusion insufficient | threes instances of confusion insufficient
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.