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“no human being is wholly free of the interests and preferences which are the product of his cultural, family, and community experience. nowhere is the dynamic commingling of the ideas and biases of such individuals more essential than inside the jury room”
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Top citers, strongest first. 15 distinct citers.
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Cited as authority (quoted)
Commonwealth v. Amaral
the theory underlying joint enterprise is that one who aids, commands, counsels, or encourages commission of a crime while sharing with the principal the mental state required for the crime is guilty as a principal
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Cited as authority (quoted)
Commonwealth v. Williams
(2×)
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no human being is wholly free of the interests and preferences which are the product of his cultural, family, and community experience. nowhere is the dynamic commingling of the ideas and biases of such individuals more essential than inside the jury room
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John v. Crestwood Local School District
we conclude that implementation of congressional policy requires the awarding of attorney's fees for time spent pursuing attorney's fees....
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Commonwealth v. Ortega
See Commonwealth v. Robertson , 480 Mass. 383 , 397, 105 N.E.3d 253 (2018). 8 The Commonwealth argues that, at the time of the prosecutor's peremptory challenge to strike juror no. 78, two of the six seated jurors "were women of color." We have previously noted that "[t]he test in Soares and Batson does not apply to challenges to members of all minority ethnic or racial groups lumped together, but instead applies to challenges to 'particular, defined groupings in the community.' " Prunty , 462 Mass. at 307 n.17, 968 N.E.2d 361 , quoting Commonwealth v. Soares , 377 Mass. 461 , 486, 387 N.E.2d …
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Mayer v. Executive Telecard, Ltd.
See Weisenberger v. Huecker, 593 F.2d 49, 53-54 (6th Cir.1979), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 880 . 100 S.Ct. 170 . 62 L.Ed.2d 110 (1979) (finding fees for fees included under the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act of 1976 because ”[w]hen Congress passed the Act its basic purpose was to encourage the private prosecution of civil rights suits through the transfer of the costs of litigation to those who infringe upon basic civil rights”); Pitchford Scientific Instruments Corp. v. Pepi, Inc., 440 F.Supp. 1175 (W.D.Pa.1977), aff'd, 582 F.2d 1275 (3d Cir.1978), ce rt. denied, 440 U.S. 981 , 99 …
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Commonwealth v. Story
(2×)
See Commonwealth v. Soares, 377 Mass. 461 , 387 N.E.2d 499 , cert. denied, 444 U.S. 881 , 100 S.Ct. 170 , 62 L.Ed.2d 1110 (1979); People v. Wheeler, 22 Cal.3d 258 , 148 Cal.Rptr. 890 , 583 P.2d 748 (1978).
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Commonwealth v. Futch
(4×)
See Commonwealth v. Soares, -Mass. -, 387 N.E.2d 499 , cert. denied, 444 U.S. 881 , 100 S. Ct. 170 , 62 L.Ed.2d 110 (1979); People v. Wheeler, 22 Cal.3d 258 , 148 Cal.Rptr. 890 , 583 P.2d 748 (1978). 6 See also State v. Crespin, 94 N.M. 486 , 612 P.2d 716 (1980); see generally Mallott v. State, 608 P.2d 737 (Alaska 1980).
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James T. Grigsby v. James Mabry, Commissioner, Arkansas Department of Correction, James T. Grigsby v. James Mabry, Commissioner, Arkansas Department of Correction
This limitation on federal courts seems to have been modified to a preference that the evidentiary hearing be held in the district court rather than the state court, Lokos v. Capps, 569 F.2d 1362, 1363 (5th Cir. 1978); accord, Fitch v. Estelle, 587 F.2d 773, 778-79 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 881 , 100 S.Ct. 170 , 62 L.Ed.2d 111 (1979), but once exhaustion has been shown the policies favoring a federal hearing remain the same.
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Grigsby v. Mabry
This limitation on federal courts seems to have been modified to a preference that the evidentiary hearing be held in the district court rather than the state court, Lokos v. Capps, 569 F.2d 1362, 1363 (5th Cir. 1978); accord, Fitch v. Estelle, 587 F.2d 773, 778-79 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 881 , 100 S.Ct. 170 , 62 L.Ed.2d 111 (1979), but once exhaustion has been shown the policies favoring a federal hearing remain the same.
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Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 97,545 Ohio Drill & Tool Company, Cross-Appellants v. Fred H. Johnson, Cross-Appellees
See Monroe v. County Board of Education, 583 F.2d 263, 265 (6th Cir. 1978), Weisenberger v. Huecker, 593 F.2d 49 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 880 , 100 S.Ct. 170 , 62 L.Ed.2d 110 (1979).
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Michael Roman v. Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York, Harold Schreiber v. Dominick R. Salamack, Superintendent of Edgecombe Correctional Facility
For example, at least one intermediate appellate court of another state, though it would later be reversed, had recently upheld a similar Sixth Amendment argument when Schreiber filed his March 1983 brief in the Appellate Division, see People v. Payne, 106 Ill.App.3d 1034 , 62 Ill.Dec. 744 , 436 N.E.2d 1046 (1982), rev'd, 99 Ill.2d 135 , 75 Ill.Dec. 643 , 457 N.E.2d 1202 (Dec. 1, 1983), and the highest courts of two other states had relied on federal constitutional cases in ruling that the prosecutor's discriminatory use of peremptories violated state constitutional provisions aiming at jury c…
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Roman v. Abrams
For example, at least one intermediate appellate court of another state, though it would later be reversed, had recently upheld a similar Sixth Amendment argument when Schreiber filed his March 1983 brief in the Appellate Division, see People v. Payne, 106 Ill.App.3d 1034 , 62 Ill.Dec. 744 , 436 N.E.2d 1046 (1982), rev’d, 99 Ill.2d 135 , 75 Ill.Dec. 643 , 457 N.E.2d 1202 (Dec. 1, 1983), and the highest courts of two other states had relied on federal constitutional cases in ruling that the prosecutor’s discriminatory use of peremptories violated state constitutional provisions aiming at ju…
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Koenig v. State
See also Commonwealth v. Soares, 377 Mass. 461 , 483 n. 24, 387 N.E.2d 499 , 513 n. 24, cert. denied, 444 U.S. 881 , 100 S.Ct. 170 , 62 L.Ed.2d 110 (1979) (peremptory challenge is "one of the most important of the rights secured to the accused").
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United Handicapped Federation v. Andre
Separate School Dist., 395 F.Supp. 304, 306-08 (N.D.Miss.), aff’d, 519 F.2d 1087 (1975); see also Weisenberger v. Huecker, 593 F.2d 49 , 50-53 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 880 , 100 S.Ct. 170 , 62 L.Ed.2d 110 (1979); King v. Greenblatt, 560 F.2d 1024 , 1025-26 n. 2 (1st Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 438 U.S. 916 , 98 S.Ct. 3146 , 57 L.Ed.2d 1161 (1978); Martinez Rodriguez v. Jimenez, 551 F.2d 877, 878-79 (1st Cir. 1977); Lytle v. Commissioners of Election, 541 F.2d 421, 424-25 (4th Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 438 U.S. 904 , 98 S.Ct. 3122 , 57 L.Ed.2d 1147 (1978); Hartmann v. Gaffney, 446 F.S…
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United Handicapped Federation v. Andre
Separate School Dist., 395 F.Supp. 304, 306-08 (N.D.Miss.), aff'd, 519 F.2d 1087 (1975); see also Weisenberger v. Huecker, 593 F.2d 49 , 50-53 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 880 , 100 S.Ct. 170 , 62 L.Ed.2d 110 (1979); King v. Greenblatt, 560 F.2d 1024 , 1025-26 n. 2 (1st Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 438 U.S. 916 , 98 S.Ct. 3146 , 57 L.Ed.2d 1161 (1978); Martinez Rodriguez v. Jimenez, 551 F.2d 877, 878-79 (1st Cir. 1977); Lytle v. Commissioners of Election, 541 F.2d 421, 424-25 (4th Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 438 U.S. 904 , 98 S.Ct. 3122 , 57 L.Ed.2d 1147 (1978); Hartmann v. Gaffney, 446 F.Sup…
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Castellano
v.
Spears
v.
Spears
No. 79-94.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Oct 1, 1979.
Published
Citer courts: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial… (2) · N.D. Ohio (1)
C. A. 7th Cir. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari denied.