Wallace v. Mulholland

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the evidence insufficient to convict defendant of conspiracy to distribute heroin, this court observed, \Surmise cannot be permitted in a criminal case\
• holding the evidence insufficient to convict defendant of conspiracy to distribute heroin, this court observed, “Surmise cannot be permitted in a criminal case”
• allowing use of retrospective determination of competency to plead guilty where court was able to hear testimony from expert witnesses and defense trial counsel, and review expert conclusions regarding defendant's competency
• allowing use of retrospective determination of competency to plead guilty where court was able to hear testimony from expert witnesses and defense trial counsel, and review expert conclusions regarding defendant’s competency
• \there are few subjects more potentially inflammatory than narcotics and thus such evidence should usually be excluded in a non-narcotics trial\
• “there are few subjects more potentially inflammatory than narcotics and thus such evidence should usually be excluded in a non-narcotics trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).