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· 11/21/1921

Hamrah Bros. v. United States

Citations

  • 11 Ct. Cust. 147
  • 1921 WL 21161
  • 1921 CCPA LEXIS 46

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that the evidentiary weight of testimony or in-court identifications of defendants was adequate to find sufficient evidence of participation in conspiracy
  • holding that “a guilty verdict may be supported only by the uncorroborated testimony of a coconspirator, even if the witness is interested due to a plea bargain or promise of leniency, unless the testimony is incredible or insubstantial on its face.”
  • “pending motions carried for hearing just before or during trial will toll the speedy trial clock indefinitely”
  • noting the judge’s intervention in the proceedings must be quantitatively and qualitatively substantial to meet this test
  • “[P]ending motions carried for hearing just before or during trial will toll the speedy trial clock indefinitely.” (citation omitted)
  • stating “[the court’s] role is to determine whether the judge’s behavior was so prejudicial that it denied the defendant a fair, as opposed to a perfect, trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Barber, Martin, Smith, Vries, Yeies

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