Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Mosley v. United States Department of Labor

99 S. Ct. 581

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1978-11-27
Topic
general

prosecutor's comment did not result in "clear error" because of the "significant factor" of the strength of the case against defendant | indictment charged distribution of heroin; jury properly instructed that it could find defendant guilty if the -narcotics were either heroin or cocaine | where literal reading of juvenile statute would have led to anomalous result,'court chose “construction which best serve[d] the intended purpose of the statute.” | prosecutor’s comment did not result in “clear error” because of the “significant factor” of the strength of the case against defendant | “evidence of an earlier conspiracy among the defendants ... was properly admitted as proof of similar acts by the defendants” | "(o)rdinarily a conviction under § 2113(a) merges into a conviction under § 2113(d)" | “[o]rdinarily a conviction under § 2113(a) merges into a conviction under § 2113(d)” | 18-year-old with I.Q. of 69 and classified as "functional illiterate" | dividing the money is part of the conspiracy

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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.