DORSEY

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• Collins v. State, 143 So. 2d 700 (Fla. 2d DCA 1962)
  …though there was time to obtain a warrant, a private citizen may make such an arrest and justify his failure to obtain a warrant by proving the person arrested was actually guilty of the felony. Dorsey v. U. S., 5 Cir., 174 F. 2d 899, cert. denied, 338 U.S. 950, 70 S.Ct. 479, 94 L.Ed. 586; 340 U.S. 878, 71 S.Ct. 116, 95 L.Ed. 639. The actions of the police officers, which culminated in the arrest, search and seizure, extended over a period of two days. All of these actions, while in the City of West Palm…
• United States v. Bentvena, 319 F.2d 916 (2d Cir. 1963)
  …r. 1958); Thomas v. United States, 252 F. 2d 182 (9th Cir. 1958); United States v. Kelley, 186 F. 2d 598 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 341 U.S. 954, 71 S.Ct. 1004, 95 L.Ed. 1375 (1951); United States v. Wight, 176 F. 2d 376 (2d Cir. 1949), cert. denied, 338 U.S. 950, 70 S.Ct. 478, 94 L.Ed. 586 (1950). The test here is whether the lack of effective assistance of counsel was such “as to shock the conscience of the Court and make the proceedings a farce and mockery of justice.” United States v. Wight, supra, 176 F…
• United States v. Carmine Tramunti, 513 F.2d 1087 (2d Cir. 1975)
  …itnesses (even though they were not initially testifying against Salley directly). We do not say that Salley’s defense was so inadequate as to amount to a “mockery of justice,” United States v. Wight, 176 F. 2d 376, 379 (2d Cir. 1949), cert. denied, 338 U.S. 950, 70 S.Ct. 478, 94 L.Ed. 586 (1950); but faced with the present factual setting, particularly the element of a complex multidefendant trial, we are constrained to find the denial of a continuance to constitute reversible error. So saying, we are not…