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· 1/7/1985

District of Columbia Board of Parole v. Brandon

Citations

  • 469 U.S. 1127
  • 105 S. Ct. 811
  • 83 L. Ed. 2d 804
  • 53 U.S.L.W. 3484
  • 1985 U.S. LEXIS 477

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that comment was invited when defense counsel alluded to his client’s silence and then “referred to appellant’s knowledge ... that appellant knew he was facing two police officers”
  • State’s reference to motive is not reversible error if invited by defense counsel’s argument
  • defendant's claimed invocation of the right to counsel not made during any custodial interrogation
  • defendant’s claimed invocation of the right to counsel not made during any custodial interrogation
  • generally improper to consider evidence which points to defendant's guilt of some other offense

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