Legal Opinion
United States v. Hasting
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 23, 1983No. 81-1463PublishedCited by 1,781 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari to review the reversal of respondents’ convictions because of prosecutorial allusion to their failure to rebut the Government’s evidence.
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On October 11, 1979, in the vicinity of East St. Louis, Ill., three young women and a man, Randy Newcomb, were riding in an automobile when a turquoise Cadillac forced them off the road. The occupants of the Cadillac, later identified as Napoleon Stewart, Gregory Williams, Gable Gibson, Kevin Anderson, and Kelvin Hasting, respondents here, forcibly removed the women from the car in which they were riding with Newcomb; in Newcomb’s…
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