Reese v. Dickson’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 670 · 1958
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
January 1959
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Most-quoted passages
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““Of course, the objective of our legal criminal procedure is the ascertainment of guilt or innocence, and the safeguards to such objective known as ‘due process’ must be observed. Yet the objective remains and should never change to a microscopic search for error upon a standard too strict to be understood or put in action only by technicians. It may be of some little significance and some, though small, comfort to those of us whose duty calls us to act in this regrettable business, that in petitioner’s long and carefully self-prepared petition, there is not to be found a claim of innocence in addition to his formal plea of not guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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