· 12/30/1977
United States v. Willie Thomas Reese
Citations
- 568 F.2d 1246
- 1977 U.S. App. LEXIS 5403
- 2 Fed. R. Serv. 871
How courts have described this case
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- considering the delay between the return of the verdict and sentencing under the Sixth Amendment
- court analyzed sentencing delay as speedy trial violation without explicitly finding that the sentencing phase was included in speedy trial protection
- scrapbook of press clippings compiled by public relations department
- scrapbook of press clippings compiled by public relations department
- “[W]e hold that the better practice would have been for the trial judge to have had a voir dire examination to determine whether there were actually such rumors before permitting the cross examination. This would avoid any random shots to the prejudice of the appellant.”
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Judges: Phillips, Engel, Cecil
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