United States v. Maurice Burse

How courts have described this case

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• improper and potentially derogatory to state \[opposing counsel's name] attempted to give you (the jury) the impression that\
• a prosecutor may not give \the impression that the government ha[s] within its possession evidence of [the defendant's] guilt which had not been given the jury\
• where defendant presented sufficient evidence of an alibi to be entitled to an alibi instruction, trial court’s failure to give any alibi instruction whatsoever was reversible error
• “As a general rule, we think it best for [alibi] instructions to be given where alibi is claimed.”
• “In those cases where an alibi defense is presented, there exists the danger that the failure to prove that defense will be taken by the jury as a sign of the defendant’s guilt.”
• “In those cases where an alibi defense is presented, there exists the danger that the failure to prove that defense will be taken by the jury as a sign of the defendant’s guilt.”

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