United States v. Maurice J. Charest

How courts have described this case

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

• holding it was unlikely that a defendant would hide in his home a firearm used in a murder
• unreasonable to infer that murder weapon would be found in suspect’s home eighteen days after crime
• government may not, on appeal, change focus of case and thereby seek to present an entirely different case
• government may not, on appeal, change focus of case and thereby seek to present an entirely different case
• “Common sense tells us that it is unlikely that a murderer would hide in his own home a gun used to shoot someone.”
• unreasonable to infer that murder weapon would be found in suspect’s home eighteen days after crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).