United States v. Sewn Newton

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that disavowal of arrest carries less weight when said to person placed in handcuffs
• holding that defendant was in custody where, inter alia, he had been handcuffed in his home
• holding that police assistance during an otherwise reasonable warrantless search by parole officers does not make the search unreasonable
• holding that summation comments implying defendant was a “predator” were not so improper as to warrant reversal
• concluding that hyperbolic argument implying that defendant was a “predator” was not so severe as to warrant reversal
• holding that public safety issue remained notwithstanding that Newton was handcuffed and in hallway outside his apartment because “the unlocated gun presented a deadly risk to everyone on the premises”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).