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· 9/8/1980

United States v. Edward F. Ross

Citations

  • 626 F.2d 77

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 defendant’s filing of subsequent accurate tax returns and his offer to pay any delinquent taxes were not relevant to the charge that he had willfully failed to file tax returns in previous years
  • stating that “it is settled that a trial court may accept a partial verdict on only one of two or more counts of an indictment”
  • following jury’s report of a deadlock, trial judge asked appropriate questions that elicited a valid partial verdict
  • challenged instruction followed by statement that \it is entirely up to you to decide what facts to find from the evidence\
  • challenged instruction followed by statement that “it is entirely up to you to decide what facts to find from the evidence”
  • a jury may reasonably infer a person intends the natural and probable consequences of his actions

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Judges: Peck, Anderson, Pregerson

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