United States v. Ronald J. Perholtz, United States of America v. Franklin W. Jackson, United States of America v. Gregory W. Fletcher

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an issue is substantial if it “is a ‘close ’ question or one that very well could be decided the other way.”
• stating that “close question” standard is “more demanding” than one that requires inquiry to be “fairly debatable,” “fairly doubtful,” or simply “not frivolous”
• explaining that this standard is “more demanding” than one that requires the inquiry to be “fairly debatable,” “fairly doubtful,” or simply “not frivolous”
• stating the appeal must “raise[] a substantial question likely to result in reversal of all counts on which imprisonment is imposed” (emphasis supplied) (citation omitted)
• stating the appeal must “raise[] a substantial question likely to result in reversal of all counts on which imprisonment is imposed” (emphasis supplied) (citation omitted)
• stating the appeal must “raise[] a substantial question likely to result in reversal of all counts on which imprisonment is imposed” (emphasis supplied) (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).