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· 11/16/1984

United States v. Richard Kelly

Citations

  • 748 F.2d 691
  • 242 U.S. App. D.C. 1
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 16670

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that, as long as the weight of the evidence clearly weighs in favor of conviction, not against it, there is no abuse of discretion in denying a new trial motion
  • alternatively defining the term as \[t]he performance of an illicit action by night\
  • defendant sought and properly received entrapment instruction notwithstanding investigation defense

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Judges: Bork, Scalia, Gesell

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