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· 6/29/1973

United States v. Jonas Whitmore, Jr., A/K/A Roscoe R. Jackson

Citations

  • 480 F.2d 1154
  • 156 U.S. App. D.C. 262
  • 1973 U.S. App. LEXIS 9081

How courts have described this case

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  • impermissible to argue that people like defendants “tear up the lives of many young people,” “ ‘wreck peoples’ lives”
  • insinuations that defendant, who was on trial only for possession of narcotics, was also a pusher
  • insinuations that defendant, who was on trial only for possession of narcotics, was also a pusher

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Judges: Leventhal, Robb, Jame-Son, Montana

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