United States v. O'Neal Williams

How courts have described this case

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• finding sufficient evidence for attempt where “[i]n the absence of police intervention, [the defendant] would have consummated the same overt acts”
• Courts \have universally adjudged that compelling a defendant to actively cooperate in non-communicative activity in the presence of the jury does not abdicate fifth amendment guarantees.\
• where the appellant discussed the possibility of buying cocaine, and arrived at the seller’s house with money
• recognizes abandonment defense to the crime of attempt
• requiring defendant to read from Time magazine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).