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Supreme Court· 10/10/1972

Workman v. United States

Citations

  • 409 U.S. 857
  • 34 L. Ed. 2d 102

How courts have described this case

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

  • upholding refusal to ask about attitudes toward drug use, political activists, and antiwar demonstrators in prosecution of antiwar demonstrator for assault on policeman and destruction of government property
  • in bench conferences where defendant is in the courtroom but not present at the conference, the court is “entitled to rely on counsel’s performance of his agency duties and assume appellant’s absence from the bench was voluntary”

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