ROVIARO

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 53 (U.S. 1957)
  …nviction, holding that the concurrent sentence was supported by the conviction on Count 2 and that the trial court had not abused its discretion in denying petitioner’s requests for disclosure of Doe’s identity. 229 F. 2d 812. We granted certiorari, 351 U. S. 936, in order to pass upon the propriety of the nondisclosure of the informer’s identity and to consider an alleged conflict with Portomene v. United States, 221 F. 2d 582; United States v. Conforti, 200 F. 2d 365; and Sorrentino v. United States, 163 F…
• Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc., 352 U.S. 521 (U.S. 1957)
  …in accordance with the jury verdict. The Court of Appeals reversed, holding that it was “not within the realm of reasonable foreseeability” that petitioner would use the knife to chip the frozen ice cream. 228 F. 2d 891, 892. We granted certiorari. 351 U. S. 936. We conclude that there was sufficient evidence to take to the jury the question whether respondent was negligent in failing to furnish petitioner with an adequate tool with which to perform his task. Petitioner testified that the hard ice cream c…
• United States v. James A. Whitley (83-5428), 734 F.2d 1129 (6th Cir. 1984)
  …h Circuit sustained the conviction, holding that the trial court had not abused its discretion in denying petitioner’s request for disclosure of the informant’s identity. Roviaro 353 U.S. at 57, 77 S.Ct. at 626. The Supreme Court granted certiorari, 351 U.S. 936, 76 S.Ct. 834, 100 L.Ed. 1464, and found that the informant’s identity should have been disclosed, because his testimony was highly relevant to the defense. It based this decision on the fact that the informant had a material role in the petitioner’…