· 5/1/1973
United States v. Robert W. Peterson, United States of America v. Wayne B. Clizer
Citations
- 475 F.2d 806
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- affirming conviction where defendant constructed a “common street do-it-yourself variety of a readily hand-thrown incendiary bomb” by UNITED STATES V. SCHAEFER 37 combining “friendly item[s]” such as “fusee flare segments, black powder, cotton rope and binding tape”
- device constructed out of a modified flare, black powder, cotton rope, and binding tape was designed as a weapon, because it was “a hostile destructive device likened to a Molotov cocktail of military ingenuity”
- fusee flare casing, black powder and cotton rope for fuse
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Judges: Koelsch, Wright, East
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