· 3/22/1984
United States v. Donald James Touchstone Charles D. Godwin
Citations
- 726 F.2d 1116
How courts have described this case
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- admitting evidence of flight that occurred almost three years after arrest
- in a case involving the midtrial flight of defen dant “[o]ur review of the law satisfies us that ‘flight’ is generally admissible as evidence of guilt, and that juries are given the power to determine how much weight should be given to such evidence”
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Judges: Edwards, Engel, Weick
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