Legal Opinion
United States v. Stuart Cohen
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 17, 1973No. 341, Docket 73-2121PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
Appellant was convicted below of conspiracy, of making false written statements in connection with the acquisition of firearms, and of falsifying federal forms; he seeks a new trial — not on the basis of insufficiency of the evidence— but on four grounds: that he was deprived of a fair trial by virtue of the Government’s introduction of “voluminous, irrelevant and highly prejudicial evidence” in connection with its proof on the conspiracy count; that a question asked by the Government of defendant on cross-examination was so prejudicial as to require a new trial even…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- United States v. RussellSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Marchetti v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- United States v. Dennis Geaney and Vincent Russell LynchCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- United States v. Joseph ManfrediCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
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3Cited by21 opinions
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- United States of America, v Demetrios Papadakis and Joseph NovoaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975
- United States v. Clark N. FischelCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
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