Legal Opinion

State v. Bartlett

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided September 10, 1979No. 228-78PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtLarrow, J.

Tried by jury, defendant Bartlett was acquitted of utterance of a forged instrument (13 V.S.A. § 1802) and convicted of passing counterfeit currency (13 V.S.A. § 1804). He appeals his conviction. Two rulings are assigned as error. The trial court denied defendant’s post-trial motion for mistrial or new trial, and after denying full cross-examination of the State’s principal witness, one Burns, refused to strike his entire testimony.

In many respects the trial was not a model one. The events upon which the post-trial motions were based cannot be briefly summarized. They were brought out in…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. United States v. John Cardillo, Lawrence Harris, Ralph Kaminsky, John Knapp, Louis Margolis, and Louis PiselliCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1963
  2. United States v. LaRicheCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1977
  3. State v. OvittSupreme Court of Vermont · 1967
  4. People v. VealAppellate Court of Illinois · 1978
  5. State v. WoodardSupreme Court of Vermont · 1976

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Silva v. StevensSupreme Court of Vermont · 1991
  2. State v. StephensonTennessee Supreme Court · 2006
  3. State v. BondurantTennessee Supreme Court · 1999
  4. State v. HohmanSupreme Court of Vermont · 1980
  5. State v. GriffinSupreme Court of Vermont · 1989

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