Merlin C. Long v. Lou v. Brewer

How courts have described this case

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

• “We too have some difficulty, in the abstract, with the distinction between requiring a defendant to disprove what was in substance an element of the crime … and requiring him to prove a defense (here intoxication) that may negative an element of the crime.”
• comment upon difficulty in reconciling Mullaney and Patterson
• denial of state post-conviction relief

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).