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· 10/18/1976

Kell v. Chilivis

Citations

  • 429 U.S. 891
  • 97 S. Ct. 249
  • 50 L. Ed. 2d 174
  • 1976 U.S. LEXIS 3138

How courts have described this case

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  • relied on § 109 but only after finding specific savings clause coupled with explicit statutory language of prospectivity
  • cash found in exhibit prejudicial in sense that crime charged involved monetary gain
  • “In light of the propriety of similar methodologies for generating the amount of unreported wager income by extrapolation ...” reconstruction of the amount of unreported income for preceding nine months from one day’s wagers upheld
  • delay of sixteen days in sealing did not require suppression
  • sentence imposed because defendant exercised constitutional right to trial
  • 9-day, 26-day and 38-day delays excused

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