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United States Vs. Powell

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Dec 10, 1984

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  2. Harris Vs. Rivera US Supreme Court · Dec 14, 1981
  3. Smith Vs. Phillips US Supreme Court · Jan 25, 1982
  4. United States Vs. Dotterweich US Supreme Court · Nov 22, 1943
  5. United States Vs. Oppenheimer US Supreme Court · Dec 04, 1916
  6. Mcdonald Vs. Pless US Supreme Court · Jun 14, 1915
  7. U.S. 57 (1984) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Powell
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  8. U.S. 57 (1984) United States v. Powell
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  9. to reversal of the telephone facilitation convictions. The Court of Appeals agreed. It acknowledged the rule of Dunn v. United
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  10. J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court. JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. In Dunn v. United
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  11. Id. at 456. The court then cited United States v. Bailey
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  12. F.2d 237, 245 (CA9 1979), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 934 (1980), and United States v. Hannah
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  13. F.2d at 456. The Government petitioned for rehearing, arguing that the court had ignored the rule of Dunn v. United
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  14. in the verdict is not necessary. Each count in an indictment is regarded as if it was a separate indictment. Latham v. The
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  15. Queen, 5 Best & Smith 635, 642, 643. Selvester v. United
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  16. offenses are separately charged in the counts of a single indictment the same rule must hold. As was said in Steckler v. United
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  17. Dunn this Court has on numerous occasions alluded to its rule as an established principle. Thus, in United States v. Dotterweich
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  18. drugs into interstate commerce, but acquitting the corporation of the same charge. And more recently, in Harris v. Rivera
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  19. supra, at 454 U. S. 346 . See also Standefer v. United
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  20. United States v. Hannah
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  21. F.2d 27 (CA3 1978). See also Page 469 U. S. 64 United States v. Morales
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  22. The latter statement, if not incorrect at the time, see United States v. Oppenheimer
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  23. U. S. 85 , 242 U. S. 87 (1916), can no longer be accepted in light of cases such as Sealfon v. United
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  24. States, 332 U. S. 575 (1948), and Ashe v. Swenson
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  25. from appealing or otherwise upsetting such an acquittal by the Constitution's Double Jeopardy Clause. See Green v. United
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  26. Kepner v. United
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  27. is hardly satisfactory to allow the defendant to receive a new trial on the conviction as a matter of course. Harris v. Rivera
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  28. as a check against arbitrary or oppressive exercises of power by the Executive Branch. See, e.g., United States v. Maybury
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  29. Bickel, Judge and Jury -- Inconsistent Verdicts in the Federal Courts, 63 Harv.L.Rev. 649, 652 (1950). Cf. Duncan v. Louisiana
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  30. undertake. Jurors, of course, take an oath to follow the law as charged, and they are expected to follow it. See Adams v. Texas
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  31. an impartial verdict on the facts and the evidence. But with few exceptions, see McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood
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  32. the jury's collective judgment. Courts have always resisted inquiring into a jury's thought processes, see McDonald v. Pless
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  33. the evidence adduced at trial could support any rational determination of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. See Glasser v. United
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  34. Jackson v. Virginia
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  35. require her to accept the burden of conviction on the counts on which the jury convicted. The rule established in Dunn v. United
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  36. b) offense, the commission of the felony that the accused is charged with facilitating. See United States v. Ward
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  37. determined upon independent review of the record that the evidence was insufficient as a matter of law, under Jackson v. Virginia
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  38. insufficient evidence on the compound offenses. We do not believe that its somewhat cryptic reliance on United States v. Bailey
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  39. In Standefer v. United
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  40. two crimes, where a guilty verdict on one count logically excludes a finding of guilt on the other. Cf. United States v. Daigle
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  41. U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Powell
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  42. of Dunn v. United
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  43. of the Court. In Dunn v. United
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  44. and United States v. Hannah
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  45. Latham v. The
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  46. Selvester v. United
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  47. Steckler v. United
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  48. Standefer v. United
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  49. United States v. Morales
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  50. Sealfon v. United
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