BERNAL

v.

FAINTER, SECRETARY OF STATE OF TEXAS, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (54 total)

• Reed v. Ross, 468 U.S. 1 (U.S. 1984)
  …cate that Ross might have acted reflexively in self-defense. The Court of Appeals went on to hold that the jury instruction concerning the burden of proof for both malice and self-defense violated Mullaney. 704 F. 2d, at 709.6 We granted certiorari, 464 U. S. 1007 (1983), to determine whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that Ross had “cause” for failing to raise the Mullaney question on appeal. We now affirm. II A Our decisions have uniformly acknowledged that federal courts are empowered und…
• United States v. Rodgers, 466 U.S. 475 (U.S. 1984)
  …380 F. 2d 917, 922 (CA2), cert. [*479] denied, 389 U. S. 1006 (1967); United States v. Lambert, 501 F. 2d 943, 946 (CA5 1974) (en banc). But the Eighth Circuit found its own analysis more persuasive. We granted certio-rari to resolve this conflict. 464 U. S. 1007 (1983). It seems to us that the interpretation of § 1001 adopted by the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is unduly strained. Section 1001 expressly embraces false statements made “in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or ag…
• Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540 (U.S. 1992)
  …he time the Government agent first suggested the crime, not when the Government agent first became involved. Sherman v. United States, 356 U. S. 369, 372-376 (1958). See also United States v. Williams, 705 F. 2d 603, 618, n. 9 (CA2), cert. denied, 464 U. S. 1007 (1983). Until the Government actually makes a suggestion of criminal conduct, it could not be said to have “implanted] in the mind of an innocent person the disposition to commit the alleged offense and induce its commission . . . .” Sorrells v. U…