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· 3/15/1972

United States v. Jan Alvord Wilkerson, United States of America v. Ransom John Gray, United States of America v. Charles Lee Burnette

Citations

  • 456 F.2d 57
  • 1972 U.S. App. LEXIS 10733

How courts have described this case

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  • finding non-prejudicial error when prosecutor inflamed jury by commenting in closing argument that people with nothing to hide do not use aliases
  • “[I]n view of the strength of the evidence against the defendants, we hold that neither the error with respect to [the appellant’s] alias nor the prejudicial effect of the Government’s references to all the aliases warrants reversal here.”

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Judges: Weick, Edwards, McCree

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