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Supreme Court· 5/19/1969

United States v. Covington

Citations

  • 395 U.S. 57
  • 89 S. Ct. 1559
  • 23 L. Ed. 2d 94
  • 1969 U.S. LEXIS 1603
  • 50 Ohio Op. 2d 35

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that where determinative questions of law were decided in his favor, defendant was entitled to dismissal of indictment
  • holding that a court can resolve a pretrial motion to dismiss the indictment only when \trial of the facts surrounding the commission of the alleged offense would be of no assistance in determining the validity of the defense\
  • holding that a court can resolve a pretrial motion to dismiss the indictment only when “trial of the facts surrounding the commission of the alleged offense would be of no assistance in determining the validity of the defense”
  • stating “[a] defense is capable of pretrial determination if trial of facts surrounding the commission of the alleged offense would be of no assistance in determining the validity of the defense”
  • discussing the equivalent federal rule and stating that a fact is capable of determination without a trial of the general issue when a trial of the facts surrounding the commission of the alleged offense would be of no assistance
  • dismissal of count of indictment proper if trial on facts surrounding offense charged would be of no assistance in determining validity of defense raised on pretrial motion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Harlan-, Warren, Marchetti, Grosso, Haynes, Stewart, Leary

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