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Sixth Circuit· 4/15/1931

Pharr v. United States

Citations

  • 48 F.2d 767
  • 1931 U.S. App. LEXIS 4298

How courts have described this case

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  • further references by Government to “misfortunes of women, widows, and orphans resulting from wrecking of the bank were in no sense pertinent to the presentation of the issues of the case, and were highly improper.”
  • admission of evidence that defendant had entered, and later withdrew, a plea of nolo contendere under circumstances where the court and counsel for the government elsewhere in the trial treated such a plea the same as a guilty plea

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Judges: Moorman, Hicks, Hickenlooper

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