Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Richardson Engineering Co. v. William L. Crow Construction Co.

Richardson Eng’g Co. v. William L. Crow Constr. Co., 112 S. Ct. 281 (1991)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1991-10-07
Topic
general

applying non-deferential pre-AEDPA standard; upholding standard instructions in Pennsylvania capital murder trial against Mills challenge | noting, in dicta, that “the very notion of ‘accidental’ child molestation is implausible.” | noting, in dicta, that “the very notion of ‘accidental’ child molestation is implausible.” | woman immediately kidnapped from car and raped after man with whom she was driving was killed by defendant | woman immediately kidnapped from car and raped after man with whom she was driving was killed by defendant | “neither the specification nor the prosecution history indicate that [the inventor] intended another meaning” | any possible failure to instruct the jury on the result of the failure to reach unanimity did not raise an error of constitutional dimension | defendant murdered a man and then raped his girlfriend

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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.

Justice Blackmun took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.