AMATO

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (22 total)

• United States v. Jackson, 549 F.2d 517 (8th Cir. 1977)
  …ay his left hand, which has a missing index finger, to the jury. Garcia also identified Hudson at trial as the man who returned the heroin to him in El Paso. . Hudson relies chiefly on United States v. Amato, 495 F. 2d 545 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 419 U.S. 1013, 95 S.Ct. 333, 42 L.Ed.2d 286 (1974) and Miller v. United States, 382 F. 2d 583 (9th Cir. 1967), cert. denied, 390 U.S. 984, 88 S.Ct. 1108, 19 L.Ed.2d 1285 (1968), in support [*531] of his contention that knowledge of the conspiracy was not establis…
• United States v. Daniel "Danny Blue Eyes", 583 F.2d 748 (5th Cir. 1978)
  …v. Salinas-Salinas, 5 Cir. 1977, 555 F. 2d 470, 472-73; United States v. Goodson, 5 Cir. 1974, 502 F. 2d 1303, 1305-06; United States v. Menichino, 5 Cir. 1974, 497 F. 2d 935; United States v. Amato, 5 Cir. 1974, 495 F. 2d 545, 549-50, cert. denied, 419 U.S. 1013, 95 S.Ct. 333, 42 L.Ed.2d 286 (1974). Our Court applied the “slight evidence” test so often and so ritualistically that by 1975 some district judges were led to believe that the government only had to adduce slight evidence at trial in order to con…
• United States v. Benton Franklin Thomas and Joseph Thomas Oliveti, 567 F.2d 638 (5th Cir. 1978)
  …on the clandestine operation. These statements were made in the presence of Thomas and Cochran. This was enough and established a prima facie case, United States v. Ochoa, supra; United States v. Amato, 5 Cir. 1974, 495 F. 2d 545, 549, cert, denied, 419 U.S. 1013, 95 S.Ct. 333, 42 L.Ed.2d 286; United States v. Oliva, 5 Cir. 1974, 497 F. 2d 130, 132-33. V. THE “ALLEN CHARGE” The trial in this case ended on a Friday afternoon. The jury began deliberations on Friday but because of the lateness of the hour it…