BROWN

v.

ILLINOIS

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Olmstead, 832 F.2d 642 (1st Cir. 1987)
  …); accord Bumpus v. Gunter, 635 F. 2d 907, 910 (1st Cir.1980) (“Unless this Court is to end up imposing pattern jury instructions, we must tolerate a reasonable range of expression, some or even much of which may not suit our fancy.”), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 1003, 101 S.Ct. 1714, 68 L.Ed.2d 207 (1981). While we hold that no definition of reasonable doubt need be included in jury instructions, and while we repeat our past admonitions that attempts at definition should not stray far from “the consistently ap…
• Shack v. The Attorney Gen. OF the State OF Pa., 776 F.2d 1170 (3d Cir. 1985)
  …so Weddell v. Meierhenry, 636 F. 2d 211, 214-215 (8th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 451 U.S. 941, 101 S.Ct. 2024, 68 L.Ed.2d 329 (1981); Houston v. Lane, 636 F. 2d 1217 (6th Cir.1980), aff'g without opinion 501 F.Supp. 5, 6 (E.D.Tenn.1978), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 1003, 101 S.Ct. 1714, 68 L.Ed.2d 207 (1981); Barton v. Malley, 626 F. 2d 151, 160 (10th Cir.1980). Shack argues that his case is distinguishable from other defective extradition cases because this court and others have accorded special status to rights…
• Theodis Watkins v. Ponte, 987 F.2d 27 (1st Cir. 1993)
  …S.Ct. 788, 102 L.Ed.2d 780 (1989). We must “tolerate a reasonable range of expression, some or even much of which may not suit our fancy,” unless we impose pattern jury instructions. Bumpus v. Gunter, 635 F. 2d 907, 910 (1st Cir.1980), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 1003, 101 S.Ct. 1714, 68 L.Ed.2d 207 (1981). In this case, the trial judge’s instructions on reasonable doubt were less than perfect. They were confusing in parts, but do not rise to the level of constitutional infirmity. The trial court's statement wit…