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Supreme Court· 1/28/1946

Bollenbach v. United States

Citations

  • 326 U.S. 607
  • 66 S. Ct. 402
  • 90 L. Ed. 350
  • 1946 U.S. LEXIS 2830

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing that a careful response to a jury’s request for specific pieces of evidence can keep the jury from overvaluing any one piece of evidence
  • noting that government there contended it was “the judge’s special business to guide the jury by appropriate legal criteria through the maze of facts before it”
  • reversing and remanding because a \supplemental instruction\ from the trial court following a question by the jury was \simply wrong\
  • reversing and remanding because a \supplemental instruction\ from the .trial court following a question by the jury was “simply wrong”
  • reversing and remanding because a \supplemental instruction\ from the trial court following a question by the jury was \simply wrong\
  • reversing and remanding because a \supplemental instruction” from the trial court following a question by the jury was \simply wrong”

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Judges: Frankfurter, Black, Jackson

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