United States v. Martel Lawes

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that police reasonably suspected defendant was homicide suspect based on his resemblance to photograph of suspect
• finding an officer’s mistake was reasonable when the suspect’s and appellant’s weights varied by forty pounds because of challenges officers faced in observing suspect
• “[F]ederal trial judges are not required to ask every question that counsel—even all counsel—believes is appropriate.”
• “The court wants a fair and impartial jury to be chosen and to move expeditiously to the presentation of evidence. Counsel want a jury favorable to their cause—fair or not—and voir dire aids them in exercising peremptory challenges and challenges for cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).