United States v. John W. Duncan

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant “abducted” victim by grabbing her at knifepoint and forcing her to drive away with him in her car
• “The motivation of rape is admissible to show that the defendant kidnapped for a benefit . . . .”
• federal rule prohibiting evidence of victim’s sexual history “was premised on the precept that an accused does not have a constitutional right to present irrelevant evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).