· 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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