TOOMER

v.

ARKANSAS

Citator

Cited By

• Sandstrom v. Montana, 442 U.S. 510 (U.S. 1979)
  …titution ...Ibid, (emphasis added). Both federal and state courts have held, under a variety of rationales, that the giving of an instruction similar to that challenged here is fatal to the validity of a criminal conviction.3 We granted certiorari, 439 U. S. 1067 (1979), to decide the important question of the instruction’s constitutionality. We reverse. II The threshold inquiry in ascertaining the constitutional analysis applicable to this kind of jury instruction is to determine the nature of the presump…
• Kentucky v. Whorton, 441 U.S. 786 (U.S. 1979)
  …utionally required in all criminal trials, and that the failure of a trial judge to give it cannot be harmless error. 570 S. W. 2d 627. We granted certiorari to consider whether the Kentucky Supreme Court correctly interpreted our holding in Taylor. 439 U. S. 1067. I The respondent was charged in three separate indictments with the commission of several armed robberies. At trial, numerous eyewitnesses identified the respondent as the perpetrator. Weapons, stolen money, and other incriminating evidence found…
• United States v. Mastropieri, 685 F.2d 776 (2d Cir. 1982)
  …ertainty required by the leading case of Holland v. United States, 348 U.S. 121, 75 S.Ct. 127, 99 L.Ed. 150 (1954), and by this court in numerous cases of which it suffices to cite United States v. Costanzo, 581 F. 2d 28 (2 Cir. 1978), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 1067, 99 S.Ct. 833, 59 L.Ed.2d 32 (1979) (affirming conviction), and United States v. Grasso, 629 F. 2d 805 (2 Cir. 1980) (reversing conviction). While the investigation or at least its presentation in the record, see note 3, supra, was not so thorough a…