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· 10/11/1996

United States v. Darnell A. Catlett

Citations

  • 97 F.3d 565
  • 321 U.S. App. D.C. 108
  • 1996 WL 582435

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the same burden-of-proof instruction as that used here cured any confusion caused by a prosecutor's remark that the jury could have understood as burden- shifting
  • holding that the same burden-of-proof instruction as that used here cured any confusion caused by a prosecutor's remark that the jury could have understood as burden- shifting
  • holding that accurate jury instructions on the state’s burden of proof \would have cured any confusion caused by the prosecutor’s remarks\ sug- gesting incorrectly that the burden rested with the defendant
  • indicating that referring to the absence of testimony from a defendant could be problematic
  • no bar in this Circuit to \dual testimony as both a fact and expert witness\
  • no bar in this Circuit to \dual testimony as both a fact and expert witness\

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Judges: Edwards, Williams, Randolph

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