POSTOM

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Lewis, 433 F.2d 1146 (D.C. Cir. 1970)
  …1897). . Jackson v. United States, 119 U.S.App.D.C. 100, 105, 337 F. 2d 136, 141 (1964), cert. denied, 380 U.S. 935, 85 S.Ct. 944, 13 L.Ed.2d 822 (1965) ; Postran v. United States, 116 U.S.App.D.C. 219, 220, 322 F. 2d 432, 433 (1963), cert. denied, 376 U.S. 917, 84 S.Ct. 672, 11 L.Ed.2d 613 (1964) ; Commercial Credit Co. v. McReynolds, 63 App.D.C. 42, 43, 68 F. 2d 990, 991 (1934). . Supra note 11. . “Because of [Section 14-306(a)], we think that, outside the presence of the jury, the trial judge should t…
• United States ex rel. Conrad A. Dancy v. Arnold, 572 F.2d 107 (3d Cir. 1978)
  …. 1966), and permitted youths to receive YCA sentences longer than they would be subject to if they were adults. See also Rogers v. United States, 326 F. 2d 56 (10th Cir. 1963); Standley v. United States, 318 F. 2d 700 (9th Cir. 1963), cert. denied, 376 U.S. 917, 84 S.Ct. 673,11 L.Ed.2d 613 (1964). Of course, petitioner Dancy was not sentenced to a term longer than an adult could receive. This feature of the YCA is nevertheless relevant to this appeal because if a youth offender serving a YCA sentence is s…
• United States v. Burks, 470 F.2d 432 (D.C. Cir. 1972)
  …ourt has held that 14 D.C.Code § 306 is “a congressional enactment which completely abrogates the common law rule as far as this jurisdiction is concerned,” Postom v. United States, 116 U.S.App.D.C. 219, 220, 322 F. 2d 432, 433 (1963), cert. denied, 376 U.S. 917, 84 S.Ct. 672, 11 L.Ed.2d 613 (1964), we have also had occasion to note that the purpose of Congress in enacting this statute “was to remove grounds of ineompetency, and not increase them. * * * Therefore a husband or wife, under this statute, can c…