United States v. Jack Randall MacCloskey

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing conviction where court excluded testimony vital to defense and fitting within hearsay exception
• finding a violation when the prosecutor called the witness’s attorney the day before the witness was to testify to “remind” him that the witness could be re-indicted on related charges
• U.S. Attorney’s suggestion that witness would be well-advised to remember the Fifth Amendment violated defendant’s right to present defense witness freely
• U.S. Attorney telephoned defendant’s girlfriend’s attorney to advise him to remind his client that if she testified at trial she could be reindicted on dropped charges
• U.S. Attorney telephoned defendant’s girlfriend's attorney to advise him to remind his client that if she testified at trial she could be reindicted on dropped charges
• United States Attorney’s statement to a prospective witness’s attorney that the witness would be “well advised to remember the Fifth Amendment” destroyed her choice to testify freely

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

51 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Claude L. Blackwell
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-12-10· cited 218×
• State v. Dotson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2008-04-28· cited 203×
• United States v. Aquilia Marcivicci Barnette, United States of America v. Aquilia Marcivicci Barnette
  Fourth Circuit· 2000-05-09· cited 138×
• United States v. Ellison M. Stockton
  Fourth Circuit· 1986-04-09· cited 124×
• In Re Martin
  California Supreme Court· 1987-11-09· cited 113×
• Engberg v. Meyer
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1991-10-17· cited 84×
• Rippo v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-10-01· cited 64×
• State v. Bell
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-09-30· cited 63×
• State v. Feaster
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2005-07-14· cited 63×
• United States v. Antonio Sival Campbell, United States of America v. Isaac Gadson, United States of America v. Clarence Edward Haynes
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-06-05· cited 61×
• United States v. Daniel King Brainard, United States of America v. Halton Q. Bittick, Jr.
  Fourth Circuit· 1983-01-13· cited 59×
• United States v. Henry Saunders
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-08-23· cited 47×
• United States v. Fowobi George and Ola Mustapha
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-04-14· cited 46×
• Darryl Colbert v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2015-10-21· cited 44×
• United States v. Jerry Wayne Golding
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-02-17· cited 39×
• United States v. Keenan Quinn
  Third Circuit· 2013-08-14· cited 38×
• State v. Andrews
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-03-09· cited 36×
• Reese v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1983-09-29· cited 34×
• Hagez v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1996-05-30· cited 32×
• United States v. Gary Arthur Teague
  Fourth Circuit· 1984-06-07· cited 29×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bartkus v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-08· cited 1,084×
• Rogers v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-04-16· cited 898×
• Webb v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-04· cited 788×
• Roberts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-15· cited 734×
• United States v. Laughman
  Fourth Circuit· 1980-04-11· cited 201×
• United States v. Larry Hammond, A/K/A Larry Hoover
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-07-16· cited 134×
• Furr v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1977-10-31· cited 118×
• Frank Daniel Williams v. Robert F. Zahradnick and the Attorney General of the State of Virginia
  Fourth Circuit· 1980-10-02· cited 108×
• United States v. Leonard James and Otto Sebold
  Second Circuit· 1979-12-18· cited 106×
• Deutsch v. Commissioner
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-07· cited 92×
• United States v. Michael Thomas and Joseph Yoppolo
  Sixth Circuit· 1973-12-06· cited 91×
• United States v. Zurosky
  First Circuit· 1979-12-28· cited 75×
• McCarthy v. Arndstein
  Supreme Court· 1923-06-04· cited 70×
• United States v. Miriam Rodriguez Diaz
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-09-08· cited 69×
• United States v. Gerald N. Klauber
  Fourth Circuit· 1979-11-29· cited 65×
• United States v. Dominguez
  Fourth Circuit· 1979-08-10· cited 61×
• United States v. Wayne Ladell Stroupe
  Fourth Circuit· 1976-05-17· cited 57×
• United States v. Leroy Mobley
  Fifth Circuit· 1970-01-16· cited 42×
• United States v. George Zappola and Robert Melli
  Second Circuit· 1981-04-15· cited 41×
• United States v. Leevaughn Toney
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-06-15· cited 25×