ALONZO

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (20 total)

• United States v. Newsome, 998 F.2d 1571 (11th Cir. 1993)
  …er Fifth Circuit passed on to us "the long established rule that a defendant's guilt may not be proven by showing he associates with unsavory characters." United States v. Singleterry, 646 F. 2d 1014, 1018 (5th Cir. Unit A June 1981), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1021, 103 S.Ct. 387, 74 L.Ed.2d 518 (1982); see also United States v. Ochoa, 609 F. 2d 198, 204-06 (5th Cir.1980). However, "[t]he decision whether to grant a mistrial is within the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be reversed unless the…
• United States v. Hunt, 794 F.2d 1095 (5th Cir. 1986)
  …ul delineation of the concept. As the Government points out, however, “firmly convinced” seems little different from “a real doubt,” a definition which we have earlier approved. See United States v. Alonzo, 681 F. 2d 997 (5th Cir.1981); cert. denied 459 U.S. 1021, 103 S.Ct. 386, 74 L.Ed.2d 517 (1982); United States v. Schaffer, 600 F. 2d [*1101] 1120 (5th Cir.1979). As mentioned before, Hunt’s efforts to base error on abstract semantics must fail if the trial court expounded the law accurately and conscien…
• United States v. Casto, 889 F.2d 562 (5th Cir. 1989)
  …of the guilty plea, whether the plea was improperly emphasized or used as a substantive evidence of guilt, and whether the introduction of the plea was invited by defense counsel. United States v. Black, 685 F. 2d 132, 135 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1021, 103 S.Ct. 387, 74 L.Ed.2d 518 (1982). In assessing all of these factors, we assume, ar-guendo, that evidence of Gutierrez’s guilty plea was put before the jury by the prosecutor. The government argues that Casto “opened the door” for discussion of…