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Fifth Circuit· 7/9/1979

Bobby Lee Moore v. United States

Citations

  • 598 F.2d 439
  • 53 A.L.R. Fed. 489
  • 1979 U.S. App. LEXIS 13339

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the defendant had failed to prove that the court’s questioning was improper where he relied on “the mere fact of judicial questioning” without identifying any “specific instances of biased interrogation”
  • noting that a court denies a defendant his right to a fair trial when the court’s conduct “strays from neutrality.”
  • approving a trial judge’s decision to ask 105 questions of the defendant
  • the trial judge, after questioning witnesses, should remind jurors that they are the sole factfinders in the case

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Judges: Tuttle, Godbold, Rubin

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