GRATTON

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Penes, 577 F.2d 754 (1st Cir. 1978)
  …exercising his discretion in determining whether to accept such a plea and imposing conditions on its acceptance, subject to review only for abuse of discretion. See United States v. Gratton, 525 F. 2d 1161, 1163 (7th Cir. 1975), application denied, 423 U.S. 1067, 96 S.Ct. 1090, 46 L.Ed.2d 658 (1976); cf. United States v. Biscoe, 518 F. 2d 95 (1st Cir. 1975) (trial judge is under no obligation to accept a guilty plea); United States v. Bednarski, 445 F. 2d 364 (1st Cir. 1971). While the trial judge may hav…
• United States v. Hall, 854 F.2d 1036 (7th Cir. 1988)
  …h Cir.1977), this court reviewed a number of similar instructions which equated a reasonable doubt to a substantial doubt. The Wright court first took note of two cases, including United States v. Gratton, 525 F. 2d 1161 (7th Cir.1975), stay denied, 423 U.S. 1067, 96 S.Ct. 1090, 46 L.Ed.2d 658 (1976) in which the court held that in the absence of an objection to an instruction defining rea [*1039] sonable doubt as a substantial doubt, no reversible error was committed, and United States v. Crouch, 528 F. 2d…