Abbamonte v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
September 1976
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · United State v. Morgan · Turner v. United States · Parker v. North Carolina
Most-quoted passages
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“We are not dealing here with a statute under which the government could not prosecute the defendant because of some constitutional barrier, as in United States v. Liquori. Rather, this is a case where, even if the inference authorized by the statute were impermissible, the government could prosecute the defendant, but would be required to establish the essential elements of the offense without reliance upon the inference. The fact that an intervening decision imposes a heavier burden upon the prosecution or makes its case weaker than the defendant originally thought does not vitiate a guilty plea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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