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United States Vs. Gainey

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 01, 1965

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  1. United States Ex Rel. Toth Vs. Quarles US Supreme Court · Nov 07, 1955
  2. Leyra Vs. Denno US Supreme Court · Jun 01, 1954
  3. U.S. 63 (1965) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Gainey
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  4. U.S. 63 (1965) United States v. Gainey
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  5. is insufficiently rational to satisfy the due process requirements formulated by this Court in Tot v. United
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  6. States, 319 U. S. 463 . We granted certiorari, sub nom. United States v. Barrett
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  7. of the Court of Appeals must be reversed, because concurrent sentences were imposed by the District Court. Emspak v. United
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  8. Sinclair v. United
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  9. considered by them in determining whether the defendant had participated in carrying on the illegal operation. Barton v. United
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  10. States, 267 F. 174, 175-176 (C.A.4th Cir.). Compare Wilson v. United
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  11. States, 162 U. S. 613 . The Fourth Circuit had endorsed such a charge. Barton v. United
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  12. States, supra. In the Third and Fifth Circuits, the precedents were less clear. See Graceffo v. United
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  13. Fowler v. United
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  14. Tot v. United
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  15. assessing the weight to be placed upon the fact of the defendant's unexplained presence at a still. See United States v. Freeman
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  16. the most comprehensive of the criminal statutes designed to stop the production and sale of untaxed liquor. See Vukich v. United
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  17. ed.). United States v. Giuliano
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  18. Cir.). Suppliers, haulers, and a host of other functionaries have been convicted under the statute. See United States v. Pritchard
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  19. b)(2) satisfies the test of Tot v. United
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  20. Holland v. United
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  21. nonetheless acquit him if it found that the Government had not proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Holland v. United
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  22. In the absence of the statute, such an instruction to the jury would surely have been permissible. Cf. Wilson v. United
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  23. Cf. Bruno v. United
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  24. a whole, with neither allusion nor innuendo based on the defendant's decision not to take the stand. In McNamara v. Henkel
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  25. Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act of 1909, 35 Stat. 614, the constitutionality of which was sustained in Yee Hem v. United
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  26. Bozza v. United
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  27. Wilson v. United
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  28. or, if the defendant sees fit, he may choose to have no mention made of his silence by anyone. Bruno v. United
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  29. Scott v. California
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  30. constitutional function of determining the guilt or innocence of a defendant. See, e.g., United States ex rel. Toth v. Quarles
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  31. Neither Tot v. United
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  32. s life, liberty, or property is at stake, the prosecution must prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. See Morrison v. California
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  33. U. S. 96 -97. The case of Bailey v. Alabama
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  34. justify conditional administration of the estate of a person absent without explanation for seven years, see Cunnius v. Reading
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  35. Scott v. McNeal
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  36. Bailey v. State
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  37. Indeed, with respect to the crime of possession, as the Court concedes, we held squarely to the contrary in Bozza v. United
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  38. the Government's burden would also be made lighter if the defendant was not represented by counsel, compare Gideon v. Wainwright
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  39. Page 380 U. S. 84 or if the jury could receive and consider confessions extorted by torture, compare Brown v. Mississippi
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  40. or if evidence obtained from defendants through illegal searches and seizures could be used against them, compare Mapp v. Ohio
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  41. constraint and judges can set aside conviction which they believe are not justified by the evidence. See Tot v. United
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  42. McFarland v. American
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  43. Sugar Refining Co., 241 U. S. 79 , 241 U. S. 86 . See Manley v. Georgia
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  44. not otherwise have though justified, to push some jurors to convict who might not otherwise have done so. Cf. Pollock v. Williams
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  45. by torture, but it is nonetheless compulsion, and it is nonetheless effective. I am aware that this Court, in Yee Hem v. United
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  46. with the Fifth Amendment's prohibition against compulsory self-incrimination, and I would overrule it. See Feldman v. United
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  47. Leyra v. Denno
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  48. U. S. 556 . See also State v. Lapointe
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  49. See United States v. Lovett
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Gainey
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