Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Lee Brown
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 27, 1975No. 74-2087PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PERRY, Senior District Judge.
Defendant Robert Lee Brown, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana, was convicted by a jury for the murder of Elijah Atkinson, another inmate. He appeals to this Court, contending that the jury could not properly find him guilty of murder in the first degree because there was insufficient evidence of premeditation. He asks this Court to reduce his conviction from first degree murder to second degree murder and to remand the case to the trial court for sentencing.
In the indictment the Government charged that on or about May 9, 1974 at…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Allen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Cupp v. NaughtenSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Pointer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Fisher v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
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3Cited by22 opinions
- United States v. Leonard PatrickCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1976
- United States v. Ronald Glen ShawCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- United States v. MulderCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
- United States v. Russell Prevatte and Robert A. SoyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
- United States v. Roger S. BaskesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1980
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