Shirley Williams v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he fact-finder must take into account that the defendant was acting in the ‘heat of the conflict.’”
• “Douglas is the antithesis of the case before us now. Here, the judge did not make any credibility determinations or factual findings .... We cannot thus dispose of the issue in the way we did in Douglas by deferring to a specific factual finding [of the trial court].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).