STEPHENS

v.

MISSOURI

Citator

Cited By

• Gurican v. State, 552 So. 2d 975 (Fla. 1st DCA 1989)
  …ed States v. Holmes, 680 F. 2d 1372 (11th Cir. 1982), cert. denied, 460 U.S. 1015, 103 S.Ct. 1259, 75 L.Ed.2d 486 (1983); United States v. Persico, 853 F. 2d 134 (2d Cir.1988); United States v. Puzzanghera, 820 F. 2d 25, 27 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 900, 108 S.Ct. 237, 98 L.Ed.2d 195 (1987). In Holmes, as in the instant case, the defendant failed to appear for sentencing. Two years later, he was apprehended and returned to Georgia, where the District Court sentenced him to seventeen years [*978] i…
• Ortega-Rodriguez v. United States, 507 U.S. 234 (U.S. 1993)
  …tives are recaptured. It is true that an escape may give rise to a “flurry of extraneous matters,” requiring that a court divert its attention from the merits of the case before it. United States v. Puzzanghera, 820 F. 2d 25, 26 (CA1), cert. denied, 484 U. S. 900 (1987). The court put to this “additional trouble,” 820 F. 2d, at 26, however, at least in the usual course of events, will be the court before which the case is pending at the time of escape. When an appeal is filed after recapture, the “flurry,” a…
• United Elec. v. 163 Pleasant St. Corp., 960 F.2d 1080 (1st Cir. 1992)
  …e-from-justice doctrine. See generally Molinaro v. New Jersey, 396 U.S. 365, 90 S.Ct. 498, 24 L.Ed.2d 586 (1970) (per curiam) (discussing fugitive-from-justice doctrine); United States v. Puzzanghera, 820 F. 2d 25 (1st Cir.) (similar), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 900, 108 S.Ct. 237, 98 L.Ed.2d 195 (1987). We believe the plaintiffs’ reliance on this doctrine is utterly misplaced. The fugitive-from-justice doctrine is a prudential device which courts may invoke to estop fugitives from challenging criminal convict…