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· 2/9/1942

Glasser v. United States

Citations

  • 315 U.S. 60
  • 62 S. Ct. 457
  • 86 L. Ed. 680
  • 1942 U.S. LEXIS 979

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a jury verdict must be sustained “if there is substantial evidence, taking the view most favorable to the Government, to support it”
  • holding that the issue of a conflict of interest is a highly fact-specific one
  • noting that a criminal verdict “must be sustained if there is substantial evidence, taking the view most favorable to the government, to support it”
  • stating that testimony that bank was federally insured would be sufficient to establish jurisdiction under§ 1344
  • finding that the inability of counsel to effectively cross-examine a witness amounted to a conflict of interest
  • stating that “[t]he verdict of a jury must be sustained if there is substantial evidence, taking the view most favorable to the Government, to support it”

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Judges: Murphy, Jackson, Frankfurter

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