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…emphatically not permitted to do merely what we think best; we must do that which we think the mississippi supreme court would deem best.
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Eott Energy Pipeline Ltd. Partnership v. Hattiesburg Speedway, Inc.
emphatically not permitted to do merely what we think best; we must do that which we think the mississippi supreme court would deem best.
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Cited as authority (quoted)
Rainwater v. Lamar Life Insurance
emphatically not permitted to do merely what we think best; we must do that which we think the mississippi supreme court would deem best.
discussed
Cited as authority (quoted)
Eisenberg v. Grand Bank for Savings, FSB
emphatically not permitted to do merely what we think best; we must do that which we think the mississippi supreme court would deem best.
examined
Cited as authority (quoted)
Provenzano v. Singletary
while these arguments were all improper ... we are convinced that has not shown a reasonable probability that their absence would have led to a different outcome. there was overwhelming evidence of guilt_
discussed
Cited as authority (quoted)
State v. Ferguson
evidence offered as to mitigating circumstances was ... that received a less severe penalty
examined
Cited as authority (quoted)
State v. McKoy
(2×)
in no sense may it reasonably be said that the prosecutor was either misstating the law, misleading the jury as to its role, or minimizing its sentencing responsibility.
cited
Cited "see"
U.S. Fleet Services, Inc. v. City of Fort Worth
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 397 (5th Cir.) (en bane), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see"
MATTHEWS AND FIELDS LUMBER CO. v. New England Ins. Co.
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 406 (5th Cir.1986) (duty of federal court sitting in diversity is to apply state law as it exists, not to set new precedents), ce rt. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); Trans World Metals, Inc. v. Southwire Co., 769 F.2d 902, 908 (2d Cir.1985) (“As a federal court sitting in diversity, we will not extend the application of this state law”).
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Cited "see"
State v. Matthews
See State v. Hamilton, 478 So.2d 123 (La.1985), cert. denied at 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
cited
Cited "see"
Fina, Inc. v. Arco
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 397-98 (5th Cir.) (en banc), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see"
Cargill v. Turpin
See Tucker v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1496, 1509 (11th Cir.1985) (en banc), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3340 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986) (prosecutor’s improper argument that parole board would release defendant prematurely “was effectively countered by defense counsel’s argument that [the defendant] would probably never be released again”).
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Cited "see"
State v. Eisbruckner
See State v. Hamilton, 478 So.2d 123 (La.1985), cert, denied at 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
discussed
Cited "see"
Doddy v. Oxy USA, Inc.
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 396-98 (5th Cir.1986) (en banc), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986) (stating that our task under Erie is to apply existing state law, not to adopt innovative theories for the state); Pittman v. Dow Jones & Company, Inc., 834 F.2d 1171, 1171 (5th Cir.1987) (“[W]e are not free to fashion new theories of recovery under Louisiana law.”).
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Cited "see"
James William Riley v. Stanley W. Taylor M. Jane Brady , James W. Riley
See Riley v. State, 496 A.2d 997, 1021 (Del.1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986). 2 .
cited
Cited "see"
Bingham v. Terminix Intern. Co., LP
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 727 F.2d 506, 515 (5th Cir.1984), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see"
Ferguson v. State
(2×)
See Riley v. State, Del.Supr., 496 A.2d 997, 1004-06 (1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see"
Beeman v. Manville Corp. Asbestos Disease Compensation Fund
(2×)
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 750 F.2d 1314 (5th Cir.1985), aff'd, 781 F.2d 394 (5th Cir.1986), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see"
Bartley v. National Union Fire Insurance
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394 (5th Cir.) (en banc) (“As a federal court, ‘it is not for us to adopt innovative theories of [state law], but simply to apply the law as it currently exists,’ and to rule as we believe the state’s highest tribunal would rule.” (citations omitted)), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986)).
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Cited "see"
Continental Trend Resources, Inc. v. Oxy USA, Inc.
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 408-09 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
cited
Cited "see"
Thomas v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 397 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
cited
Cited "see"
Stephen T. Ladue v. Chevron, U.S.A., Inc.
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 397 (5th Cir.) (en banc), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986). 13 .
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Cited "see"
Cather v. Catheter Technology Corp.
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 727 F.2d 506, 515 (5th Cir.1984), ce rt. denied 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986). a. design or manufacturing defects When confronted with a summary judgment motion, the respondent must come forward with some evidence in support of his claim.
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Cited "see"
Lundy v. State
See Tucker v. Kemp , 776 F.2d 1487 , 1491 (11th Cir. 1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3340 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986) (counsel's decision to rely on defendant's testimony rather than offering testimony of defendant's family reasonable strategic choice).
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Cited "see"
Vuocolo v. Diamond Shamrock Chem.
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F. 2d 394, 412 (5th Cir.) (describing General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Layton, 353 So. 2d 749 (Miss. 1977) where plaintiff with bruised knee recovered damages for prospective arthritis as "indistinguishable" from asbestos plaintiffs' claim for prospective cancer), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed. 2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see"
Melvyn Jack Rosenwald v. United States
See Tucker v. Kemp, 776 F.2d 1487, 1491 (11th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3340 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (“Unless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief, the court shall ... grant a prompt hearing thereon_”) (emphasis supplied).
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Cited "see"
Mauro v. Raymark Industries, Inc.
(2×)
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F. 2d 394, 412 (5th Cir.) (describing General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Layton, 353 So. 2d 749 (Miss. 1977) where plaintiff with bruised knee recovered damages for prospective arthritis as "indistinguishable" from asbestos plaintiffs' claim for prospective cancer), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed. 2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see"
Amendola v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 412 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986). 4 .
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Cited "see"
Time Insurance v. Sams
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 397 (5th Cir. 1986), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see"
William Kenny Stephens, Cross-Appellee v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent- Cross-Appellant
(2×)
See Tucker v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1496 (11th Cir.1985) (en banc), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 106 S.Ct. 3340 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986). 112 Here, the jurors were told that "the law presumes that a person intends to accomplish the natural and probable consequences of his acts." A reasonable juror would have understood this instruction to mean just what it says: that proof of an act creates a presumption of intent to bring about the consequences of that act.
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Cited "see"
Ernest Lee Ruff v. Larry Kincheloe
(2×)
See Church v. Kincheloe, 767 F.2d 639, 643 (9th Cir.1985) (Sandstrom error harmless when defendant did not contest intent), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); Herd v. Kincheloe, 800 F.2d 1526, 1528-29 (9th Cir.1986) (same); cf. Connecticut v. Johnson, 460 U.S. 73, 87 , 103 S.Ct. 969, 977 , 74 L.Ed.2d 823 (1983) (Sandstrom instruction may not be harmless error if intent is contested). 1 30 Since all relevant portions of the record were reviewed and these portions are sufficiently dispositive to render the Sandstrom error harmless, reversal for failure to review…
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Cited "see"
Dicie Ellen Hibley Swayze, Legal Guardian and Next Friend of Michael Wayne Swayze v. McNeil Laboratories, Inc.
(2×)
See Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 727 F.2d 506, 515 (5th Cir.1984), aff'd on rehearing and reinstated in part, 750 F.2d 1314 (5th Cir.1985) (en banc), questions certified to Mississippi Supreme Court, 757 F.2d 614 (5th Cir.1985) (en banc), certificate for questions dismissed, 469 So.2d 99 (Miss.1985) (en banc), aff'd on certified issues, 781 F.2d 394 (5th Cir.1986) (en banc), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see"
William Boyd Tucker v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
(2×)
See Tucker v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1496, 1496 (11th Cir.1985) (Clark, J., dissenting), vacated, --- U.S. ----, 106 S.Ct. 517 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1985); Brooks v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1383 , 1426 & n. 1 (11th Cir.1985) (Johnson, J., dissenting), vacated, --- U.S. ----, 106 S.Ct. 3325 , 92 L.Ed.2d 732 (1986). 17 Strickland and Caldwell are fundamentally different in that Strickland places the prejudice burden on the habeas petitioner.
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Cited "see"
George Jones, Cross-Appellant v. Benefit Trust Life Insurance Company, Cross-Appellee
See id. at 413-14 nn. 25, 27.
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Cited "see, e.g."
Hulin v. Fibreboard Corp.
See, e.g., Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 397-98 (5th Cir.) (en banc) (In filling a void in state law the federal court may not do merely what it thinks best, but rather must do what it thinks the state’s highest court would deem best.), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); Rogers v. Corrosion Prods., Inc., 42 F.3d 292, 295 (5th Cir.) (Although “[t]he decisions of lower state courts should be given some weight, ... they are not controlling where the highest state court has not spoken on the subject.”), cert. denied, 515 U.S. 1160 , 1…
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Cited "see, e.g."
Hulin v. Fibreboard Corp.
See, e.g., Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 397-98 (5th Cir.) (en banc) (In filling a void in state law the federal court may not do merely what it thinks best, but rather must do what it thinks the state's highest court would deem best.), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); Rogers v. Corrosion Prods., Inc., 42 F.3d 292, 295 (5th Cir.) (Although "[t]he decisions of lower state courts should be given some weight, ... they are not controlling where the highest state court has not spoken on the subject."), cert. denied, 515 U.S. 1160 , 115 S.C…
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Cited "see, e.g."
Dawson v. State
See also Riley v. State, Del.Supr., 496 A.2d 997, 1026 (1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); Flamer v. State, Del.Supr., 490 A.2d 104, 137-45 (1983), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 865 , 104 S.Ct. 198 , 78 L.Ed.2d 173 (1983), and cert. denied, 474 U.S. 865 , 106 S.Ct. 185 , 88 L.Ed.2d 154 (1985).
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Cited "see, e.g."
Kurt A. Puthe v. Exxon Shipping Co.
See e.g., Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394, 414 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see, e.g."
State v. Sullivan
Sandstrom, supra, at 513 , 99 S.Ct. at 2453, 2459 ; see also State v. Hamilton, 478 So.2d 123, 128 (La.1985), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see, e.g."
Lesko v. Lehman
Compare Tucker v. Francis, 723 F.2d 1504 (11th Cir.), vacated for reh'g en banc, 728 F.2d 1358 (1984), reinstated in relevant part, 762 F.2d 1496 (1985) (en banc), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3340 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see, e.g."
People v. Rodriguez
(2×)
See Brooks v. Kemp, 762 F.2d at 1411 ; see also California v. Ramos, 463 U.S. 992 , 103 S.Ct. 3446 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1171 (1983).” Tucker (William) v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1480, 1486 (11th Cir.1985) (en banc), vacated, 474 U.S. 1001 , 106 S.Ct. 517 , 88 L.Ed.2d 452 (1985), aff'd, 802 F.2d 1293 (11th Cir.1986), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 911 , 107 S.Ct. 1359 , 94 L.Ed.2d 529 (1987); see also Tucker (Richard) v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1496, 1507 (11th Cir.1985) (en banc), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3340 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see, e.g."
James J. Cash, Cross-Appellant v. Beltmann North American Company, Incorporated, Cross-Appellee
See, e.g., Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 781 F.2d 394 (5th Cir.) (two defendants, award represented 0.027% and 1.25% of their respective net worths), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); Spaeth v. Union Oil Co., 762 F.2d 865 (10th Cir.1985) (0.06% of net worth), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1104 , 106 S.Ct. 1946 , 90 L.Ed.2d 356 (1986); Kociemba v. G.D.
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Cited "see, e.g."
Jack P. Racich and Gertrude C. Racich v. The Celotex Corporation
See also Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 750 F.2d 1314 app. at 1338-39 (5th Cir.1985) (in banc), on rehearing, 781 F.2d 394 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986).
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Cited "see, e.g."
Bob Edward Lancaster v. Lanson Newsome
See, e.g., Tucker v. Kemp, 762 F.2d 1496, 1501 (11th Cir.1985) (en banc), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3340 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986) (erroneous instruction on intent harmless where defendant’s “sole defense was non-participation in killing”).
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Cited "see, e.g."
In Re Air Crash Disaster at Stapleton Intern.
See Washington, D.C., 559 F.Supp. at 335 ; Chicago, 644 F.2d at 632-33; Chicago, 500 F.Supp. at 1054 (Judges Robson and Will); Kohr v. Allegheny Airlines, Inc., 504 F.2d 400, 403-05 (7th Cir.1974), cert. denied sub nom., 421 U.S. 978 , 95 S.Ct. 1979 , 44 L.Ed.2d 470 (1975); see also Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 750 F.2d 1314, 1329-41 (5th Cir.1985) (en banc) (Clark, J., dissenting), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); In re "Agent Orange" Products Liab.
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Cited "see, e.g."
Ford v. Continental Airlines Corp.
See Washington, D.C., 559 F.Supp. at 335 ; Chicago, 644 F.2d at 632-33; Chicago, 500 F.Supp. at 1054 (Judges Robson and Will); Kohr v. Allegheny Airlines, Inc., 504 F.2d 400, 403-05 (7th Cir.1974), cert. denied sub nom., 421 U.S. 978 , 95 S.Ct. 1979 , 44 L.Ed.2d 470 (1975); see also Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 750 F.2d 1314, 1329-41 (5th Cir.1985) (en banc) (Clark, J., dissenting), cert. denied, 478 U.S. 1022 , 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); In re “Agent Orange" Products Liab.
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Cited "see, e.g."
State v. Gerald
(2×)
Compare, e.g., Brogdon v. Blackburn, 790 F. 2d 1164, 1169 (5th Cir.1986) (under Louisiana statute, co-defendant's sentence not a mitigating factor, inasmuch as it is not relevant to the defendant's own "character, prior record, or the circumstances of his offense"), cert. den., 481 U.S. 1042 , 107 S.Ct. 1985 , 95 L.Ed. 2d 824 (1987) and State v. Williams, 305 N.C. 656, 687 , 292 S.E. 2d 243, 261-62 (1982) ("The fact that the defendant's accomplices received a lesser sentence is not an extenuating circumstance. * * * The accomplices' punishment is not an aspect of defendant's character or recor…
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Duncan Peder McKenzie Jr. v. Henry Risley
(2×)
See, e.g., Church v. Kincheloe, 767 F.2d 639, 642 (9th Cir.1985), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); Hagler v. Callahan, 764 F.2d 711, 714 (9th Cir.1985); In re Hamilton, 721 F.2d 1189, 1191 (9th Cir.1983).
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Cited "see, e.g."
Duncan Peder McKenzie Jr. v. Henry Risley
See, e.g., Church v. Kincheloe, 767 F.2d 639 (9th Cir.1985) (Sandstrom error harmless where defense was not lack of intent but mistake), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); Hagler, 764 F.2d 711 (Sandstrom error harmless where intent was not contested and defense was alibi); Herd v. Kincheloe, 792 F.2d 1441 (9th Cir.1986) (if, upon remand, the court concludes intent was not disputed, it should apply the harmless error doctrine to the Sandstrom instructions), withdrawn in tight of Rose v. Clark, 106 S.Ct. 3101 .
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Blount v. State
See also, Riley v. State, Del.Supr., 496 A.2d 997, 1008 (1985), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); Ross v. State, Del.Supr., 482 A.2d 727, 732 (1984).
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Cited "see, e.g."
Blount v. State
See also, Riley v. State, Del.Supr., 496 A.2d 997 , 1008 (1985), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 106 S.Ct. 3339 , 92 L.Ed.2d 743 (1986); Ross v. State, Del.Supr., 482 A.2d 727 , 732 (1984).
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Church
v.
Kincheloe, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary
v.
Kincheloe, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary
No. 85-6022.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Jul 7, 1986.
Certiorari.
Published
C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.
Justice Marshall would grant certiorari.