Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Smith v. United States
502 U.S. 1017
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1991-12-16
- Topic
- bankruptcy
How later courts describe this case
- prosecution has burden of demonstrating that admission of confession did not contribute to conviction
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C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.
Justice Thomas took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.Opinion of
Justice Stevens,respecting the denial of the petition for writ of certiorari.
For the reasons stated in Justice Blackmun’s dissenting opinion, there is no escape from the conclusion that the Court of Appeals committed error in this case. I write only to note that I find it difficult to articulate an acceptable theory of discretionary review that would explain both the Court’s denial of certiorari in this case and its summary reversal in Mireles v. Waco, ante, p. 9 (per curiam), and Hunter v. Bryant, ante, p. 224 (per curiam).